Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps. Or were the Engineers acknowledging the changing of the guard in the conference: we're not as good as we were last year, and you, Harvard, are clearly the best in the ECAC, so what's the point...
Anatoli Shcharansky's happiest day began 2,000 miles away as a dusting of snow glistened on the stone centaurs that guard the western end of Berlin's Glienicker Bridge, where a boldly lettered sign warns passersby, YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR. On the eastern side of the 420-ft. crossing, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag and the black-red-and-gold banner of the German Democratic Republic flapped in the chill breeze off the ice-clogged Havel River. Most of the time the iron span in the forested Wannsee district of southwestern Berlin is a bridge leading...
...Caribbean sun set, an honor guard lowered the billowing red-and-black flag in front of Haiti's presidential palace in Port-au-Prince. For more than two decades that daily ritual had been private: ordinary citizens were not permitted on the street that leads to the sprawling white residence from which the Duvalier family governed Haiti. Last week the twilight flag lowering was witnessed close up for the first time by a crowd of hundreds: "Change it!" they chanted. "Change...
...successor, President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, had fled to France with his family to avoid a bloody popular uprising, the hated standard was pulled down for the last time. Beginning this week, on the orders of Haiti's new five-man ruling government council, the palace guard will hoist the red-and-blue Haitian flag that had flown before the elder Duvalier took power 28 years...
...Star festivities at Reunion Arena, where come March the National Collegiate Athletic Association will house its Final Four tournament. To complete the mood of a basketball world slightly out of whack, the N.B.A.'s annual slam-dunk preliminary was won by an undersize Texan, 5-ft. 7-in. Atlanta guard Spud Webb. Meanwhile, the long-range shooting medal went to a 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. forward, Boston's Larry Bird. The game that followed was overpopulated with seven-footers, but the most valuable player happened to be 6-ft. 1-in. Sprite Isiah Thomas of Detroit. Plainly pro basketball...