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Word: fiercest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's offense, recently led by the top Donato-Ciavaglia-Vukonich line, is among the fiercest in the ECAC. It was that cold November night in Hanover when Coach Ronn Tomassoni gave birth to the prolific line, which netted six tallies in its debut...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Hapless Dartmouth Challenges Icemen | 12/15/1990 | See Source »

Senior Renard Charity and junior Leon Newsome compose one of the fiercest tandems in the league. The game should pose a test for the Tom Callahan-less Harvard offensive line. Callahan, the team captain, is out for the season with a back injury...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Gridders Seek Sweet Revenge Today At Princeton | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

Every time Lazarre-White dropped back to pass, there seemed to be at least two Purple People Eaters waiting for him, prompting Harvard Coach Joe Restic to label the Holy Cross pressure the fiercest his teams have faced, "anytime, anywhere...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Take Care of the Hands That Get You Sacked 12 Times | 10/2/1990 | See Source »

...burned out of their home in a fatal arson. Not even this makes them sympathetic. They remain a bitter if invigorating tonic, to be taken in carefully measured doses. But they are mean-spirited fun. Barnard, an acute and merciless chronicler of Britain's middle classes, is at his fiercest in showing how the proper bourgeoisie reacts to, and is repeatedly bested by, the convention-scorning Phelans. The story's most intense drama is generated not by the search for the killer, but by the question of whether the one decent-seeming Phelan, an amiable schoolboy, is for real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who And Why | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Mariana Rodriguez Villegas' assailants were anything but subtle. After stopping her on a Mexico City street two weeks ago, the four men held her at gunpoint and gave her a blunt message for her employer, writer Jorge Castaneda, one of the fiercest critics of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's government: Lay off or die. Three days later, after the young secretary identified one of her menacers as a former police agent, a fifth thug threatened her life as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Sending a Blunt Message | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

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