Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the reckless Sanjay died in the crash of his stunt plane on a hot summer day four years ago, Rajiv became the crown prince. He quit his pilot's job, entered politics, and soon won his brother's parliamentary seat. Named a general secretary of the Congress (I) Party in February 1983, he made a reputation for himself as a quiet-spoken reformer determined to bring new life and leadership to a largely corrupt and ineffectual machine, leading some Indians to refer to him as Mr. Clean...
...there's more on the line today than just the Ivy crown, because Harvard's out to avenge what happened the last time these teams met here...
...Cantabs earned a share of the Ivy League crown, but their half-championship was tainted by the bitter memories of the Penn debacle...
PHILADELPHIA--The University of Pennsylvania today assured itself of at least at tie for its third straight Ivy League football crown by pummeling a visiting Harvard squad...
Penn need only win or tie at Cornell next weekend to clinch sole possession of the crown that it has shared with Harvard the past two years...