Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier in the competition, Mateer had defeated Scott Mead, Harvard's number seven man, while Mark Panarese and Ned Bacon, four and five on the Crimson ladder, fell in the round of sixteen...
...nights later in Wisconsin, Harvard capitalized and then some. For one thing, this wasn't a good night for number-one ranked teams. Michigan's top-rated basketball team fell to Providence the same evening, so for those of you who believe in trends, the Crimson's 4-3 (that score again) triumph shouldn't have come as much of a surprise...
...young officer, he would not let his seasickness prevent him from standing watch: he simply carried along his vomit bucket to the bridge of the submarine. He fell under the spell of Admiral (then Captain) Hyman Rickover, and that celebrated authoritarian became the second most important male influence in his life. It was Rickover who provided the model of the perfectionist leader, one who seldom handed out compliments...
...March 24. But for the next six months the market moved listlessly sideways. Tantalizingly, the Dow pierced the 1000 mark no fewer than eleven times during the year, only to fall back every time. On Sept. 21, the index reached 1014, its peak for the year, but then it fell into a slump that knocked 90 points off the average and for a while turned Wall Street into a boulevard of dented dreams...
After Siegel had spent only a single night at the new sleep-wake clinic of New York's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Neurologist Elliot Weitzman's suspicions about him were confirmed; as soon as Siegel fell asleep, the functioning of the muscles of his upper respiratory tract became so impaired that breathing would come to a total halt for as long as a minute (doctors are uncertain whether excessive muscle relaxation or contraction is responsible). Then Siegel would awake with a start, and in his groggy state would gasp for air with a loud snore. The loud...