Word: lions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endless war for the hearts and channel selectors of America's bleary- eyed morning viewers, CBS has never even won a battle. From the day in 1954 when Walter Cronkite and a puppet lion named Charlemane went up against Dave Garroway and J. Fred Muggs on NBC's Today, through the late '70s and early '80s, when such CBS heavyweights as Hughes Rudd and Charles Kuralt were battered by ABC's Good Morning, America, the network rarely finished higher than last place...
...Medical School in Chicago. "As women assume more of the men's roles in society, it's expected and natural, like yin and yang, that men should balance that out." Unfortunately, today's "new woman" is too often contending with the same old man. Women continue to do the lion's share of the housekeeping, child care and cooking, even in households where both partners work. Glamour magazine surveys have found, for example, that the proportion of women who claim that they share child-care duties equally with their partners has actually dropped in the past three years, from...
...Harvard punt rush pressure, which up to this point had been ordinary, suddenly exploded. A group of players broke through the line, exploiting the weakness. Kris Thabit reached Lion kicker Al Pollard and intercepted the kick with his stomach. Teammate Mike Hirschland recovered the bouncing ball, and danced five yards into the endzone. Harvard led 21-0, and never looked back...
Facing a third-and-long deep in their own territory in the second quarter, Columbia tried a double-reverse. But Hirshland read the play from the start, and when Lion split-end Matt Fox took the ball from running back Chris Della Pietra and headed back across the Columbia backfield, he was met by the waiting Hirshland...
Koppel, for his part, behaved like a circus ringmaster determined to wring every ounce of ersatz drama out of the confrontation in the lion's cage. He pointedly delayed asking the predictable Donna Rice questions. It was all for naught: the answers were unrevealing. Hart persisted in describing Rice as "this attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced...