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Word: crowning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly Cornell will surprise a few people this year, and could finish in the top four. Few really expect the Big Red to challenge for the league crown, but almost all agree that the squad will be instrumental in deciding who eventually comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNELL | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...just Wiley, though, Jenny Stricker, who is slowly working herself back into shape after a year's layoff, was one of Harvard's all-time best runners two years ago, and could be a pivotal force when the Crimson makes its stretch run for the league crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Prepare For Heps | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

That due could end up to be the Ivies' finest one-two backfield, and could prove the keys to keeping Harvard in the hunt for at least a piece of its third straight league crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...self-righteous pageant officials who demanded Vanessa Williams' crown [PEOPLE, July 30] should have supported her and instead gone after the source of the problem-publishers of pornography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Olympic Fever | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Peters, "Theirs are shinier than ours." Two nights later, everything that glittered was around Retton's neck. She won the gold medal in the all-around championship, the most coveted prize in gymnastics, since it marks the winner as the finest gymnast in the world. It is the crown Nadia Comaneci once wore, and Lyudmila Tourischeva, and which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim to it in the most dramatic duel in the history of the sport, winning by performing a perfect 10 in her final event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Finishing First, At Last | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

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