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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrate their victory and escape the heat, rowers from Harvard's second heavyweight boat placed their gold medals in the first-place bowl, held hands at the edge of the dock and leapt into the water...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Just Another Day in the Sun | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...large contingent of B.C. supporters leapt to its feet after Sweeney's goal and hadn't settled down when the Eagles again found the Crimson twines--this time on forward Kevin Houle's tip-in of defenseman John McLean's slapshot from the point...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Crimson Collapses, 4-2, in Beanpot Opener | 2/4/1986 | See Source »

...surprised by this, for human history has shown that far from recoiling from abrogating standards of decency, the majority has eagerly leapt at any chance to use disease, was or natural calamity to turn its fury on the unpopular minority. Jews in Europe were killed during the plague. Japanese-Americans were sent off to internment camps in World War II, while the politically powerful Italian- and German-American remained free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education Not Isolation | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

Fred Scherer set the pace early by consistently outracing the Bruin opponents to the ball as well as firing in two goals in the first three minutes of the game. Hard-fought battles both above and below the surface raged at both ends of the pool. The relentless Crimson leapt to an early 3-0 lead and prompted a Brown timeout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Drown Brown Capture N.E. Tourney | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...lies practically in the shadow of Manhattan's towers. When fire fighters reached the scene, they encountered what one called "a ball of fire" about 50 ft. high roaring down an alley of the factory complex alongside the city's namesake river. The blaze churned into an inferno that leapt explosively from building to building, incinerating one instantaneously and then--boom!--vaulting on to the next. In the end, some 1,000 fire fighters were powerless to stop it. Fueled by a variety of industrial-use chemicals stored in the structures, the fire consumed wooden flooring as though it were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trial By Fire and Water | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

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