Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown scored the last two touchdowns of the game to make Penn State's first game against an Ivy team in 25 years look a lot closer than it really...
...Fort Rupert. We had worried more about a shark spotted on the five-hour trip from the out island of Carriacou than any trouble we expected ashore. Two U.S. helicopters had buzzed us as we approached, and we waved back with our cameras and radios. But as we came closer to the coastline, we heard the dull thud of bombs over the noise of the throbbing diesel engine, and with each thud, Big Alfred stubbornly refused to go any farther. We coaxed and cajoled him over almost each wave with the radio reports that the quay in St. George...
...incumbent on the Russians" to threaten a strong counterblow, perhaps far from Cuba. Moreover, the secrecy necessary for successful military action would preclude consultation with allies, and that worried Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He warned that if the U.S. took "an action of this sort without letting our closer allies know of a matter which could subject them to very great danger ... we could find ourselves isolated and the [NATO] alliance crumbling ... at a moment of maximum peril...
...young Pacers battled the rest of the way, but could never get closer than seven points...
Back when they started, though, the thought of an Ivy title seemed as remote as construction-free days in Harvard Square. "Back then it seemed great just to get a goal." Lamont says, "Now here we are in contention for the Ivy title, closer than we've ever been before...