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...bright spot for Harvard was a 15-9, 15-7 belting of Brown. In the victory, the Crimson played relatively well, though they almost let the Bruins claw back into the first game--allowing seven straight points before putting them on formaldehyde...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: M. Spikers Drop Two Of Three in Tourney | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...southern Iowa, where they don't need irrigation water and where the black loam used to stretch like a carpet from horizon to horizon, you top a hill and find the brown claw marks of a monster that has scoured off the land's precious mantle, leaving the gummy, less productive clay showing in streaks. The monster is erosion, brought on by poor farming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Issue That Won't Wash Away | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

Okay, so it makes no sense, but the best man...er...robot usually won. The most effective strategy was to get to the puck first and pin it against the boards, while opponents fruitlessly tried to check the winning robot off the puck and get a claw...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: It's Paradise, Melrose-Style | 2/8/1990 | See Source »

...Tigers can claw from all sides. Led by Brit Dewey, the Princeton defense will challenge the tremendous offensive trio of Co-Captain Char Joslin, Lisa Cutone, and Landau...

Author: By Juan Plascencia, | Title: Stickwomen to Host Princeton in ECACs | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...smiled bashfully at cameras and gave gentlemanly praise to racers who were beating him. The expectations game was at least as delusive among the women. Wasn't Michela Figini, the fiery Italian-Swiss who is the sport's best woman downhiller, supposed to repeat her Sarajevo victory? And then claw it out for most of the other medals with her teammate and nonfriend the formidable German-Swiss Maria Walliser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Champagne Runs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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