Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Analyze Boston's poor foul shooting or marvel at Andrew Toney's unstoppable jump shot if you must; complain about the refereeing or remind your roommate from Philadelphia that Tiny spent yesterday on the bench in street clothes. The sophisticated fans, wherever they sat, joined that stirring end-of-game cheer, out of respect for the Celtics and for a team that showed it doesn't choke after all. As far as you're concerned, the championship's been won, Best...
...Kirov Ballet is still a classical marvel...
...Army's new M-l Abrams tank illustrates both the problems and the potential of overcoming Soviet numbers with advanced technology. At its best, the 60-ton monster is a marvel, roughriding over terrain at 35 m.p.h. while firing its 120-mm cannon with remarkable accuracy. Its revolutionary armor provides protection several hundred times as great as that of the M60, which the new tank replaces. Yet the M-l has been plagued with problems during development, and costs have now reached $2.43 million apiece (compared with $1.2 million for the M-60). The main problem was that...
...Harvard women's basketball team continued to drive in reverse by dropping its 18th game of the 1981-82 season yesterday evening, 71-64 at Brown's Marvel Gymnasium...
...chunk of the league lead. And the Bruins--who lost their first 11 games of the season but who have since rebounded with wins over perennial Ivy Powers Penn and Princeton--responded to the uncustomary call of the league lead, dumping the Crimson, 69-65, at Brown's Marvel...