Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captain Tom Mannix, following a come-from-behind home victory over Cornell at the end of January, said, "We win 'em in the last couple of minutes. At home, if it's close in the last couple minutes, we feel...
...idiotic idea, but standard Massachusetts thinking: tax the hell out of 'em for programs that aren't needed," Ned B. Elmer, a second year student from New Hampshire explained...
...shot didn't fall, however, and after a knock-'em down-scramble for the rebound--at least five players ended up on the floor--Princeton's Christel wound up with the ball and lofted a baseball throw to Mills, who sunk a fast break lay-up which brought the crowd to its feet...
...chief value of Ethan Mordden's The Splendid Art of Opera is in just such updatings, which are the results of exhaustive research. Unfortunately, Mordden, a former editor of Opera News, has a brass ear for language: one composer, he writes, "will have to wow 'em pronto." His book is less pleasurable than utilitarian, something to thumb through for answers rather than for diversion...
With Dixon and Fleming in the guard slots. Crimson fans can expect a high-scoring, shot-'em' up sort of contest. The Warriors, whose defense has given up about 75 points per game so far this season--often slip into a slow-down offense and zone D. "Hopefully," says McLaughlin, "they won't play slow down against...