Word: fran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years under patrician, aloof President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing were enough. Twenty-three years of government by the same center-right majority had proved too much. As if they had been dared once too often to take the risk, French voters this week chose Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 64, an unflappable veteran politician whom many thought a perennial loser, as the fourth President of the Fifth Republic. They thus embarked on the country's boldest venture toward the left since 1936, setting the stage for a risky economic transformation...
...Fabulous Fran, who ended the season with 103 points and the Ivy League scoring crown, then made it 3-0 with an unassisted goal...
Minuteman sue Caples cut the Harvard' lead to 5-2 at 3:59, but a "Fran-to-Maureen" goal with 2:35 left and a "Maureen-to-Fran" tally with 1:12 remaining gave the Crimson a 7-2 advantage at the half...
...Fabulous Fran brought the laxwomen to a 4-0 lead with tallies at 5:39 and 3:42 off passes from Finn (the Den Hartog to Finn combination clicked four times on the day), and the Crimson went into the second half with a four-goal advantage that Northeastern never threatened...
...being effectively challenged from both the left and the right. On the left, his closest rival, perennial Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand, 64, a narrow loser in the presidential election of 1974 and parliamentary vote of 1978, has been gnawing away at Giscard's centrist support. Behind him, Communist Candidate Georges Marchais, 60, is fighting to improve on the 20.55% his party obtained in 1978. On the right, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, 48, leader of the Neo-Gaullists, has made surprising advances among conservatives and suddenly emerged as a still unlikely, but just possible, second-round challenger...