Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against Penn State, Harvard Co-Captain Arkie Engle was the first one to finish his match, capturing an easy 6-0, 6-2 victory over Brad Fieldings...
...this is Redfordland, and Milagro is a dream of liberal community. The developers, timid villains in a modern range war, are no match for the villagers. Here comes Ruby (Sonia Braga), the local La Pasionaria, bustling with petitions and '60s rhetoric. Sheriff Bernie (Ruben Blades, who exudes sly star quality) keeps tamping down the hot tempers of the villagers and the Anglos. And Amarante (Carlos Riquelme) fights the scourge with flaming arrows, fish heads and ancient curses. He even fires his pistol at an intruder and drives the developers' bulldozer over a cliff -- though no one in this gossipy town...
...assistant to the master at Eliot, works considerably harder than most computer programs I know to ensure that the needs and interests of Eliot residents are met most equitably in their rooming assignments. Edie spends her summer doing what a computer program attempts to do in a few minutes--match diverse groups of men and women to a complex labyrinth of rooms and potential suites--only Edie does a much better job. She, I am sure, would probably much prefer to spend the summer lounging in Eliot courtyard, but she sees the rooming assignments as something worth doing...
...healthy, we can be a really fine team," Fish said. "Our guys take a match off of anybody...
When it comes to political elusiveness, Dukakis has met his match in Gore. For months Gore had been floundering as he groped to find a rationale for his candidacy more compelling than Georgia Senator Sam Nunn's failure to enter the race. Gore kept trying to identify himself as a hawk almost in the Scoop Jackson mold even as his private pollsters were insisting that Democratic voters in the South were as uninterested in nuclear strategy as voters elsewhere. But Gore stubbornly refused to modify his approach, even though his record was far less right-of-center than his rhetoric...