Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a great freshman class," raved Sweetser. "They did really well this meet for the first match of their careers...
Saturday's match against Yale was played on a muddy field, which hampered play. The Crimson had to look to its forward pack to dominate play instead of its experienced core of backs...
...number in the future is unlikely to refocus campaigns on the issues. Debates, like ads, overemphasize the personalities of the candidates. They seem to satisfy some primitive urge to see rivals go after each other man-to-man, and have all the farce and hoopla of a professional wrestling match...
...today's touring pros are the product of golf academies and genteel collegiate teams, Norman, like Ray Floyd and Lee Trevino before him, took a tougher road. "The gambling gave me a killer instinct," he asserts. With his minuscule salary, he could not afford to lose. In one match Norman was three holes behind with four holes left to play. Several hundred dollars in the red, he pressed (essentially doubling the stakes) on the 16th and then again on the 18th. Had he lost he would have had to cough up a nonexistent $1,200; instead he ended...
...government and foreign journalists have been at swords' points since 1986 laws declaring a state of emergency squelched most reporting on racial unrest. So Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha should hardly have been surprised when the Foreign Correspondents Association's annual banquet last week turned into an angry slanging match. Botha gave as good...