Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney toughs, challenges a rival gang boss to one-on-one combat and just barely lives to tell the tale. Berkoffs twist: Mike and every other character speak in iambic pentameter. Will the rival boss kick Mike in the crown? "Balls! Were he Al Capone I'd pluck 'im down...
...Bottom) Senior MAUREEN FINN shows the determination that enabled the Harvard women's lacrosse team to take the Ivy crown. The laxwomen dropped a heartbreaker to UMass, 7-6, in an NCA'A quarterfinal game...
This year, however, the talented outfelder emerged as the key ingredient on a banner Crimson club that won its first Eastern crown in three years. Duplicating his efforts from the fall, Allard set another Harvard record, slamming more than 20 home runs, that is sure to keep his name in the books for some time to come...
This was the team of destiny, the one with seven seniors who weren't satisfied with their second Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title. Here was a team that had conquered bad breaks much of the year and felt sure it could do what was necessary to win a Northeastern crown and a trip to the College World Series in Omaha...
...ever I should be questioned about it." It is that candor, conveying irresistibly the sense of life as it was, that finally begins to make Pepys rather likable after all. And so history has come to rely on his vivid descriptions of all he saw: the Restoration of the Crown after the Cromwellian revolution, the Great Fire of London, the return of the Black Death, even the petty details of King Charles II in conference. "All I observed there is the silliness of the King," Pepys wrote, "playing with his dog all the while, or his codpiece, and not minding...