Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter appeared self-assured and comforting, but could not match Roosevelt for the sheer drama of the situation or the rhetoric of the speech. Many who watched, though, seemed more interested hi the President's unusual costume than in anything else. Said one Wall Street executive: "I don't like a President in a sweater." The conservative Chicago Tribune found the sweater "a little too folksy to be real." Some viewers also chided Carter for saying little new or speaking too soon. But, in sum, the relaxed and reassuring Carter style-and Carter's cardigan-seemed...
West quickly got down to the business of healing the Lakers. He patiently taught the tricks of his trade, and waited for a few wins to reinforce his message. Says West: "This team does not match up with the best I've ever seen. There's no reason we should be doing as well as this now. But a good chemistry has developed among the players after winning a few games." The players credit West's intensity and contagious enthusiasm. Says Forward Tom Abernethy: "One big reason we're winning is that Coach West...
...Ithacans looked like lions going into the match, with three 14-13 victories over Yale, Penn and Princeton under their belts. But as foretold by their 14-13 loss to MIT--a team the Crimson easily handled--they turned out to be only paper tigers...
Captain Julia Moore battled to win the decisive point of the final game in a marathon match with her Williams rival, Jan Garvey. Moore had enabled her opponent to control the tempo of play and deadlock their match at two games apiece. In the fifth game Moore persistently dodged the wide-swinging weapon of the black-eyed Ephwoman and exhaustively hung...
...remaining matches resembled the first in ferocity but the Crimson found itself on the losing side of the ledger. The match was nailed shut when seventh-seeded Marina Castaneda of Radcliffe lost, 3-2, to Williams' Barb Ernst...