Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the Los Angeles Lakers captured the NBA crown last week, no professional baseball, basketball or football team had repeated as champs in over a decade. Repeating as champions in collegiate sports is almost as difficult...
...herself, paying with the American Express card. In Paris she asked Yves Saint Laurent for a bottle of his perfume Opium ($175 an ounce) and received it free. In London she canceled a visit to the tomb of Karl Marx for a chance to see the crown jewels. She owns four fur coats and wore three of them in one day in Washington. Mikhail Gorbachev was once overheard quipping, "That woman costs me not only a lot of money but also a lot of worry." Seeing her in several outfits a day, some Soviet women, who often have to line...
Taking time out from the NCAA Tournament, the men's soccer team decides to finish up regular-season business. The booters tie Yale, 0-0, and capture the outright Ivy League title. Now, it's back to the business of winning a national crown...
...women's swimming team also wraps up an Ivy crown, swimming past Penn, 172-94. But even before the aquawomen can dry off, they are looking ahead to the Eastern Championships. "I am waiting for bigger and better things," Harvard Coach Maura Costin Scalise says...
...Lawrence, meanwhile, captures the league crown...