Word: champions
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...left without a director since the departure last fall of Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, is searching for a candidate with experience in elective politics who will emphasize academia's links with the outside world, said committee chair Hale Champion...
...Crimson lost the opening match against defending Ivy League champion Princeton in straight sets, 15-6, 15-6, but picked up the pace in a close loss to the Quakers, 15-8, 15-13. In the last match, the Crimson edged out Cornell, 15-13, in the first game and, taking advantage of momentum and the Big Red's disorganization, won the second game and the match decisively...
Upward Bound opened its first regular season on Dec. 22, 1987, against New York State's Rockland Community College (21-3 and a National Junior College Athletic Association division champion in 1987). Many expected a blowout, but Upward Bound stuffed the predictions. Rockland eked out a last-second win, 64-63. Thereafter, Upward Bound went 11-11 against the best junior colleges in New England. In July at the Amateur Athletic Union National Junior Olympics held in Florida's Dade County, it beat all-star teams from Kentucky and Ohio before finally losing to players from the nation's fourth...
...leaders for "doing very well ((by)) keeping alive the feeling that they're victims of prejudice." The next day Bush attended a prayer breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Bush opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and once called King a "militant," but now he hailed the civil rights champion as a "great gift from...
...last hours of the Reagans were crammed with thunderous tributes and then dozens of tiny, human gestures of thanks. The Notre Dame football team, voted the national champion, came by and left Reagan the blue-and-gold letter sweater of George Gipp. Suddenly make-believe was real; the latter-day Gipper finally had the authentic article, and he clung to it reverently as the team departed. The apt gift touched him almost as much as anything that happened in the parting...