Word: doves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After playing neck and neck in the first quarter, the Crimson dove ahead. It drew fouls left and right and reaped 42 percent of its goals on power plays. Washington and Lee, after failing to answer five Harvard goals and losing one of their key players to penalties, prepared to jump ship...
...score five times this year, but Saturday's game offered its own cruel blend of hope and disappointment. Down 21-0 late in the second quarter, the Crimson rallied to close the gap to one point with 3:42 left in the game when quarterback Rod MacLeod dove into the endzone from the two-yd. line...
...scoreboard early in the first 10-minute overtime. Junior midfielder Paul Baverstock capitalized on a Crimson penalty kick to give Harvard a 1-0 lead at 91:02. Baverstock passed a free kick to senior Ramy Rajballie on the side of the Quaker defending wall, and a Penn defender dove on the ball before Rajballie could take the shot. Harvard was awarded the penalty kick on the foul...
Anything for Billy does for the gunfighter what Lonesome Dove did for the trail-driving cowboy: re-creates a brief but indelible period as horse-opera bouffe. But the Billy book does something more. Through Ben Sippy, dime novelist and later a scenarist for western movies, McMurtry confects a folklore about the making of folklore. By adding his special glow to long- forgotten pulp fiction and the advent of a machine that projects our fantasies, he answers the fundamental question, Why would a nation that strongly believed in its manifest destiny enshrine in its legends a nihilistic punk...
...larger issues, Dukakis knows that satisfying Jackson would mean alienating many voters. For instance, Jackson argues for tax increases on the affluent and a significant reduction of Pentagon resources. As Dukakis fends off Republican charges that he is a tax-loving liberal dove, he can hardly embrace those ideas. Nor can he court Jackson too ardently without looking weak or Mondale-like...