Word: lone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MANY ANGELS can dance on the edge of a Gillette Platinum-Plus? Not too many. and the ones who can need help, so they use other people like guywires--it's all a matter of trust. But then trust is gone like the Lone Ranger, and the angels were never really angels, anyway, just angels decorating a cake, and all that's left is a game of solitaire on the table...
Before the partisan crowd of 400, Dave Fasi regained the momentum for Harvard with two goals in the first 90 seconds of overtime. Three more unanswered goals from a fired-up Crimson squad clinched the decision, and MIT's lone overtime tally was too little and too late to alter the 13-9 Crimson victory...
...being that people don't like to walk in the rain. Many times the driver arrives at the called-for location to find multiple escorts such as 5 or 6 people who could safely walk in a group to their destination. Likewise, the escort driver is confronted by the lone caller who insists that she/he has to be escorted to a location deep into the reaches of Somerville, North Cambridge or some other off Campus location, usually at a time when the 'T' is still running. There is always the extreme example of abuse such as the time that...
...Wildcats stand as the region's lone undefeated squad with an 11-0-3 mark, which includes the September 27, 0-0 deadlock with Harvard. UMass, with a 17-1-1 mark --the loss at the hands of UNH -- is seeded second, followed by Springfield, UConn, Dartmouth, Yale and Rhode Island. Only the Rams' 3-6-2 mark is worse than Harvard...
...five-week strike in protest against 14,000 layoffs. Fiat's unions accepted a compromise settlement that called for government compensation to the laid-off workers and a pledge by the company to rehire any who might still be out of jobs in 1983. Brushing off a lone leftist hawking protest leaflets at the gate, a young worker exclaimed: "Soon we'll be getting a pay packet again...