Word: contests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--After the Harvard hockey team defeated Boston College, 5-4, to advance to the Beanpot championship game, the Crimson players agreed that it didn't matter what kind of four-legged creature would show up for the 9 p.m. contest...
...goalie Peter Fish, however, got stronger as the game grew longer. The Terrier netminder closed the contest with crucial blocks in the overtime period to finish with 28 saves...
Harvard's press was effective for most of the game, but dry shooting spells at the end of each half kept the Crimson out of the press in crucial points of the contest...
...packed off to live with Dwight, and if all goes well, his mother will accept Dwight's proposal and move in too. All goes horribly. Dwight is a secretive bully who is either at his companions' feet or at their throats. With young Tobias, it is no contest. The boy is given demeaning, pointless tasks, constantly berated and subjected to drunken, careering rides up hairpin mountain roads. He could, of course, tell his mother about this abuse and possibly dissuade her from marrying Dwight, but he does not: "I had come to feel that all of this was fated, that...
...more will be at stake than replacing Paul Kirk as their top technician. Ironically, Brown could end up rivaling Jesse Jackson as America's pre-eminent black leader and thus steal some thunder from the man whose campaign he helped manage and whose specter has hovered over this contest. Brown would also become, for better or worse, a symbol of his party: either an embodiment of the commitment to fairness and equality that has been at the heart of the Democrats' creed or, from another viewpoint, the final snub to those white voters who feel the party has become beholden...