Word: chestnut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHESTNUT HILL--For the Harvard men's hockey team, it seems that whoever lights the lamp first goes home happy...
...CHESTNUT HILL--The line that divides a good team from a great team is often very small. For the Harvard men's hockey team on Friday, that line was about the width of a goal post...
...Crimson (5-0, 4-0 Ivy League), which finished second to No. 10 Virginia at UVA's Cavalier Invitational last weekend, sent the maximum 26 of its 43 swimmers to the dual meet at Chestnut Hill and the team returned with a 167-114 victory over the Eagles (1-3, 0-1 Big East...
...selling Givenchy, Christian Dior or one of France's many other high-profile designers, perfumeries into which saunter ladies who would be at home in the pages of Vogue magazine and hair salons whose attendants dawdle at the door with an insouciance that Marlon Brando would envy. Even the chestnut trees on the elegant Champs-Elysees hang their branches with the same grace and premeditated beauty that the children of Paris are trained to admire and emulate from an early...
SECRETARIAT How can a horse be influential? If in 1973 you saw the big chestnut colt win the first Triple Crown in 25 years by 31 incomprehensible lengths, and if you realized that in appearance, style and disposition he was the Platonic ideal of the athlete, you wouldn't argue the point. His influence is this: Secretariat is the standard against which every other Thoroughbred must be measured...