Word: jousting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer, Chandler may well have film crews in her living room. She and the nearly 40 million other Medicare recipients whose drug bills are not covered by the government's health plan for the elderly will be at the center of a high-profile joust between the President and Republicans. Both sides plan to introduce some kind of prescription-drug benefit into the Medicare system while retrofitting the 34-year-old program to keep it from collapse. Even before Clinton could formally announce his plan, scheduled for this week, the Republicans attacked his proposed premium increase as a tax hike...
...Saturday Harvard students were treated to a new kind of Springfest: rather than high-priced bands, they got the chance to let loose, be silly, slide down two-story slides, play in an inflatable castle and joust with their best friends...
Indeed, this may be the same logic that leads Stewart to believe students would be at all interested in a "joust" or "cookie-eating contest" in lieu of a performance by a live band at Springfest. MATTHEW R. MITCHELL '01 March...
Stewart called for a Springfest with more of a Harvard-focus," describing a day of interhouse competition with activities such as a "joust" or a "sugar cookie eating contest...
Harvard enters tomorrow's joust with Dartmouth after fending off Bowdoin, 5-2, on Tuesday...