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Word: hockey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning to think that Harvard had won the national hockey championship FOR NOTHING...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Finally Fulfilling Vacation | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...student at the University of Minnesota. (Yes!) He admitted to having tickets behind the goal to every Golden Gopher hockey game, including the last one. (Yes!) Then he made a lewd comment to one of my friends...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Finally Fulfilling Vacation | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...sinking feeling, or just hollow? How much money did you waste at Minnesota hockey games? Do you mind being called a Golden Gopher?" The words dripped out of my mouth like the Chinese water torture...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Finally Fulfilling Vacation | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Instead, I spent hours loitering outside the offices of elected officials from Minnesota. I planned to run up behind anyone leaving these offices and go sliding past. "Wow," I'd say. "This is just like hockey...and speaking of hockey, are you a University of Minnesota Golden Gophers hockey...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Finally Fulfilling Vacation | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...took to wearing my bold "Harvard Hockey, National Champs" shirt through crowded malls and busy streets. Like single-color 10-foot high tapestries of modern art, this shirt "confronts" the viewer. Any true University of Minnesota fan would crump at the sight of it, I reasoned, and then I could move in for the kill...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Finally Fulfilling Vacation | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

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