Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offensive, with predictable results. With all the fervor of a fanatic, Alice continued to press-gang new recruits and ordered the death of doubters. "We leave everything in the hands of God," she said three weeks ago, sitting in the dappled shade of a banana grove near Lake Victoria. By the time Mama Alice went into hiding two weeks later, seated on a bicycle that was being pushed by half a dozen still loyal followers, as many as 6,000 Ugandans had died in the hapless cause of lakwena...
Since ABC's Al Michaels shouted those words to a national television audience eight years ago from Lake Placid, legions of American hockey-playing youths have striven to emulate their heroes, members of the goldmedal winning 1980 USA Olympic team...
...there exists precedents for Olympic upsets. In 1960 a quartet of Harvard players, led by current Crimson coach Bill Cleary, guided the U.S. to its first Olympic gold medal. And everybody knows what happened at Lake Placid...
...Harvard should be right back in there to win the ECAC again," he added. "I expect to be going to Lake Placid [N.Y.] for the [NCAA] Final Four...
...team had to face the pressure of living up to the standards of the 1980 Olympic Team, which captured the gold medal at Lake Placid...