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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They put three guys close together screening in on the crease," Harvard Coach Scott Anderson said. "They just kept taking shots [which] our goalie would have been able to stop, but he wasn't seeing the ball very well...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Middies Dunk Laxmen, 10-9 | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

Both sides kept lists of how each employee would vote. Both urged employees to vote. Both knew the race would be close. But before Harvard lost--by the slimmest of margins--the administration acted as though it knew it was fighting a losing battle...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Playing to Lose | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

Bergmann gets help from All-Ivy defenseman Bill Pennoyer and Rich van den Broek, who returned to the line-up last Saturday after injuries kept him out for most of the season...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Laxmen to Battle Navy in NCAA Opener | 5/18/1988 | See Source »

Father Tadeusz Zaleski, a pro-Solidarity priest who was at the strike- committee headquarters in the rolling-mill building, the first target of the attackers, described the assault: "They kept shooting off these blinding flash and deafening percussion grenades. People lost their bearings and began fleeing in panic. They were chased all over the hall and beaten with truncheons." Most of the 18 members of the strike committee were taken into custody. Then a force of at least 2,000 riot police swept through the rest of the mill, rounding up strikers and forcing them to kneel or lie down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Duel of the Deaf | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...canvas roof on a convertible, while the plane was going 330 m.p.h. at 24,000 ft. Though Pilot Robert Schornstheimer made the best of a terrible situation, the incident killed one flight attendant and injured 61 passengers. Many of them were struck by chunks of metal and insulation that kept peeling off the plane during its frightening descent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Aircraft Safety: How Safe Is The U.S. Fleet? | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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