Word: dame
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...phenomenon that a resolute West could cause to disappear. In a 1982 speech to the British Parliament, he borrowed a phrase that the Bolsheviks had used against their opponents and predicted that Soviet Marxism would wind up on "the ash heap of history." Speaking at a Notre Dame commencement in 1981, and again to evangelicals last March, he called Marxism-Leninism a "bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written...
...linebacker. In today's terms, he was not only John Elway, the top draft choice, but also Dan Marino, the rookie of the year. The Heisman runner-up or, the way he looked at it, the "loser," was Joe Theismann of South River, N.J., and Notre Dame, a mouthy wraith. He still says, "The classic line of the No. 2 guy is that it was enough just to be considered. That is garbage. I may have said the same thing, but deep down inside, I didn't want Jim to be successful, not then, not for a long...
...selected Bernie Kosar to run a sophisticated pro-style passing offense. Kosar is 6 ft. 5 in. tall and favors throwing to a tight end named Glenn Dennison, who has not only good hands but noticeably large ones. The Hurricanes have an ungigantic but fierce defense. Like Nebraska, Notre Dame was far bigger, but the Irish could not score against Miami. "I would rather play Harvard," says Bob Devaney...
...until around 1900 a Lincoln sportswriter decided Bugeaters was not a proper nickname for the players and began to refer to them as Cornhuskers. Coach Jumbo Stiehm's teams, vintage 1911-15, alternately called the Cornhuskers and the Stiehm Rollers, were regularly undefeated against the likes of Notre Dame. During the 1920s, Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen lost to the Cornhuskers twice. Nebraska employed legendary Coaches Fielding Yost before Michigan and D.X. Bible before Texas...
...course Fighting Irish fans prefer to remember the intervening year when Notre Dame broke USC's 23-game winning streak enroute to the National Championship. Eight times since 1926, the National Championship has been decided in a USC-Notre Dame game. To win this year's game. 27-6. Notre-Dame pulled a psychological trick out of the bag. The school colors are gold and blue, but the Irish showed up on the field dressed in green jerseys for only the third time in 20 years. The last time they wore green was the last time they beat...