Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Cleveland State University, a pair of upstarts making their first appearances in the NCAA tournament, eliminated two of college basketball's traditional powers Friday...
...defenders claim that Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 65, is nothing more than a quiet resident of the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills, retired from his job in a Ford auto plant. But to his Israeli accusers, Demjanjuk is "Ivan the Terrible," who helped murder some 900,000 people at the Nazi death camp near Treblinka, Poland, in 1942 and 1943 and then slipped into the U.S. in 1952 as a "displaced person." Last week, after seven years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the extradition of Demjanjuk to Israel, where he will become the first...
...Journalist Barry Lopez. "Much of the tundra," he notes, "appears to be treeless when, in many places, it is actually covered with trees--a thick matting of short, ancient willows and birches. You realize suddenly that you are wandering around on top of a forest." Icebergs the size of Cleveland drift through the dark waters, and sulfur butterflies mysteriously rise in the short, delirious summer. Mirages provide a weird history and geography: "A Swedish explorer had all but completed a written description in his notebook of a craggy headland with two unusually symmetrical valley glaciers, the whole...
...Princeton, who narrowly lost Thursday's 500 freestyle to Egan, made amends by winning the 200 freestyle in 1:38.35. The Tigers could not capitalize on the win, however, because a wave of Crimson swimmers followed him--Ritch in third place, Pearson in fourth, Smith earning fifth and Bill Cleveland 16th...
Recipients of the annual "Harvard Political Journalists of the Year Awards" were: Christopher J. Georges '86-'87 of North House and Brooklyn, NY; Michael W. Hirschorn '86 of Dunster House and New York, NY; and Thomas J. Winslow '87 of Eliot House and Cleveland, OH. Honorable mentions went to Hirschorn and to Harvard Salient Managing Editor Caleb Nelson '88 of Lowell House and Cleveland...