Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assured a disappointing sixth place finish for the Crimson, picked in some early-season predictions to win the Ivy League crown. To no one's surprise, Penn, with back-to-back victories at Cornell and Columbia over the weekend, picked up its second consecutive title...
McConnell's reputation is based on an impressive track record. So far this year she has won the national junior title (her third) and the national championships, leaving her only the intercollegiates this weekend to complete the first triple crown in the history of women's squash...
...close match at the lower weight class, as other poor performances and bad luck helped Cornell nip the Crimson. 21-20. The aura surrounding the Crimson miracle season faded away in that match as the coach and the team assumed that they had lost their chance for the crown...
Though Princeton confidently controlled the pace last night, the Tigers performance was but a limp imitation of the masterful slow-down offense that took last year's Ivy crown and eight of the past 20 titles...
...have gone unheard. Weinberger did not even announce that the letters of agreement for the $8.5 billion Saudi purchase of U.S. AWACS radar warning planes had been signed, although he had been expected to do so. Presumably the Secretary once again urged Fahd to visit Washington, a trip the Crown Prince has canceled twice during the past year, but there was no hint that Fahd intended to accept the invitation in the near future. The basic problem, as always, was the Saudi view that the U.S. must take a "stronger stance" against Israel, in pursuit of a Middle East peace...