Word: cliffe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gompers simply ran away from the field in the men's race, taking top honors in 26:11.9 over the five-mile course. During the next 20 seconds two more Cantabs--Cliff Sheehan and Ed Steinfeld--charged in to seal the Crimson...
Crimson harriers Cliff Sheehan, Paul Kent and Peter Jelley finished 5-6-7, and Andrew Gerkin of Harvard took 10th place to give the Cantabs 31 points...
Peter Jelley (25:12.9), Cliff Sheehan (25:20.1), John Duffy (25:26.8), Andy Gerken (25:39.7) and John Perkins (25:44.1) bagged the next five finishes and the Crimson snagged the meet...
...commanded with uncommon aplomb. The beam, a 4-in.-wide strip that demands the greatest precision and exacts the severest penalties for the minutest errors, is the great winnower of women gymnasts. It is a tightrope without a net, and every bit as dangerous as turning handsprings on a cliff. Beam injuries have been crippling, and few women ever lose their fear of it. When it is done well, the beam reveals a choreographed grace made lovelier by the rigors of its execution. But make a mistake, lose balance for a nanosecond, and the result is an ugly flailing...
...against trees. By late 1978, when Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, as many as 3 million of the country's 7 million people were dead. Yet those who survived reportedly had worse in store for them. In one episode, soldiers from neighboring Thailand pushed 826 Kampuchean refugees over a cliff; in another, they forced 43,000 to walk home in the dark down treacherous mountain paths surrounded by minefields...