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...There were a lot of meets in which we would get down and then just fold," she says. "We had a good year, but we could've done even better, and I'm sure that they will in the future...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Women's Water Polo Broadens Its Talent Base | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...landed at Juno Beach with Canada's Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders. Their mission was to race 10 miles to Caen's airport on fold-up bicycles. Darling caught three bullets in the abdomen before the Canadians reached their objective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-DAY: The Men Who Fought | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...beach, there was no standing around. We tried using the fold-up bikes we'd trained on for two years. But the rubble on the roads made the whole thing impractical. After about three miles, we were ordered to stack them up in a heap. We dug slit trenches the first night in a churchyard; Jerry was maybe 1,000 yds. away. When we tried to negotiate with a local farmer to buy some eggs, he was mystified by our Quebec French and finally asked in English, 'What do you want?' He had been a steward on the French liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-DAY: The Men Who Fought | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...expecting Dartmouth, Princeton and Yale to be blazingly fast," captain John Roberts said. "We are going to have race at a higher level. They are not going to fold under the same kind of pressure [that our past opponents folded under...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Men's Lightweights Face Big Weekend | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

Although the council would not have been able to enforce the resolution had it passed, the councillors say their intent was three-fold: to preserve the integrity of government, to alleviate tensions within the council and--above all--to tell Walsh that he lacks the confidence of four colleagues...

Author: By Julie H. Park, | Title: Council to Walsh: Should He Resign? | 4/27/1994 | See Source »

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