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Word: exception (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years ago, Harvard was on the brink of winning the Ivy League title. Yale had nothing to play for. That is, except for The Game. The Elis rose up and denied the Crimson the title, 17-6. A 7-3 Harvard season meant nothing. Harvard lost The Game...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: The Game Remains the Same | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

...used a similar method in choosing the music. Most scenes, he says, were not paired with specific songs, except for Jesse Colin Young's "Get Together," which serves as the film's musical crux. During one scene, where Sutherland and Winona Ryder (who plays the sister of Sutherland's best friend) are escaping to Canada, the song "Wooden Ships" plays on the soundtrack. The lyric ("Go, take a sister then by the hand/Lead her away from this foreign land") seems especially appropriate, yet when pressed on this similarity, Thompson replies that it is merely coincidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERVIEW | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

Like all other Ivy schools, except for basketball-crazed Columbia and Penn, Princeton has a hockey team...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: That's One Tough Tiger | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

...Reilly is also a top-quality goalkeeper, with enough talent to start at almost any school in the nation. Except Harvard...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: A Season of Frustrations | 11/16/1988 | See Source »

...Browns are Cleveland's best hope for glory. But they may have missed their shot. Two years in the AFC Championship game and nothing to show for it except thousands of broken hearts along Lake Erie...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Death of a Cleveland Brownie | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

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