Word: contests
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Freshman starter Zach Hope held the Cadets to just five hits and three runs over seven innings to even his record to 3-3 on the season. Hope struck out four hitters in the contest...
...were audible among much of the Democratic establishment. Because Dukakis evokes wild enthusiasm? Hardly. A TIME poll last week conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman showed that only 34% of registered voters consider Dukakis an "exciting" candidate (vs. 66% for Jackson). Rather, the party has grown weary of a nominating contest that combined the worst elements of burlesque and trench warfare. Now at last the stable, competent craftsman can begin to build a campaign against George Bush...
Festivities will include a lip-sync contest followed by a beauty contest...
Before yesterday's showdown between Ivy superpowers Harvard and Dartmouth, Crimson women's tennis Coach Ed Krass predicted that the upcoming contest would closely resemble war on the tennis courts...
Whatever the result, this race could hardly be as dramatic as the 1971 contest, which set up Byrd's accession to majority leader six years later. The weekend before the vote, Kennedy relaxed over dinner, telling friends he had the job wrapped up. Meanwhile, Byrd was feverishly collecting chits, and believed he had a one-vote margin as long as he could count on the proxy of Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, who was near death in a Washington hospital. On the day of the vote, aides gave Byrd the signal that Russell was still alive and his proxy good...