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Word: crowning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johns Hopkins lacrosse team stunned two-time defending champion Cornell in the NCAA final at New Brunswick, N.J. Saturday, snapping the Big Red's record streak of 43 straight victories by a score of 13-8 to win the 1978 national crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hopkins Stuns Cornell in Lax Final | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

...McEnroe, a semifinalist at Wimbledon last summer, picked up the crown by winning an incredible third tiebreaker...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Lundy Falls in NCAA Singles | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

...Lundy lost his opening round singles match at the NCAA championships in Athens, Ga., to SMU's Harron Ismaiol, Stanford had earlier defeated UCLA for the team championship, while Stanford's John McEnroe garnered the singles title Monday and UCLA's John Austin and Bruce Nichols won the doubles crown...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Lundy Falls in NCAA Singles | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

...ticking clock, the wonderful, knowing hands of the bugboy had been fused with the courage of the race rider. In short order, the stakes horses started to come his way: Johnny D., last year's turf champion, and Affirmed, the best two-year-old colt and his Triple Crown mount this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cauthen: A Born Winner | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...course. One sign of good breeding, in a horse or a human, is self-control, and Patrice Jacobs Wolfson controls emotions as carefully as Stevie Cauthen controls her horse. She will say just this: "Aside from having good health, my husband and I want only to win the Triple Crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Nice, Quiet Life | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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