Word: grips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help but wonder if he hasn't been wandering about the area these past 81 years, somehow trying to preserve his team's grip on the title, "the last Harvard NCAA champion...
...math and one in computer science. Given such sparse credentials, faculty jobs for blacks have been extremely hard to come by. At Stanford, for example, a mere 45 of the university's 1,294 faculty members are black or Hispanic. Among minorities, only Asians appear to be strengthening their grip on education's top tiers. At SUNY in 1984, Asians held 531 faculty posts, compared with 316 for blacks. For the current academic year, Asians took all but eight of 68 new job openings...
...Lowell House incident was shocking and disgraceful. Fundamental civil liberties were violated in a most shameful fashion. To be sure, much of the misconduct during this incident may not have been premeditated; many of those who behaved wrongly were improvising in the face of unanticipated developments and in the grip of strong emotions. Nevertheless, their actions at Lowell House constituted grave violations of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. Moreover, the mass frenzy that characterized much of the Lowell House protest was the very antithesis of the reasoned discourse that is the defining feature of a university community...
...East division, they pretty much had to lose three straight games to the New York Mets, and they pretty nearly did. Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog rearranged Ace John Tudor's date with Darth Gooden only to lock Tudor and well-bred Yalie Ron Darling into a 0-0 death grip, broken like a windowpane on an eleventh-inning Darryl Strawberry home run that, except for the stadium clock being digital, put spectators in mind of Roy Hobbs. Naturally, Gooden won the second game, his 24th victory at 20 years old, but the third ended in a nervous stream of Cardinal...
...pageants since the age of five. She has picked up a few expert techniques along the way. She shrink- wrapped herself in Saran Wrap for three or four nights before one competition last year ("You lose a little bit of water"), and has used an athletic adhesive called Firm Grip to keep the bottom of her bathing suit in place ("Everybody uses it. I'm so firm I don't need much"). Her immediate plans? "I want to make a lot of money," she says both candidly and cheerfully, "and meet a lot of people...