Word: matchup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have thought it at the start of the season? Who could have known that today's football contest between the Harvard Crimson and the Brown Bears would be such an even matchup...
...hardly dub Clinton an invertebrate while he himself wiggles between principles. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Gingrich booster and political augurist Arianna Huffington called Clinton a "counterfeit" and Dole a "composite--a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups," and predicted that in a matchup, the counterfeit would win. The idea of that choice helps explain why voters tired of gamey party politics ache for the only candidate who has yet to say whether he belongs to a party...
...best in the American League vs. the best in the National, a team starved for a world championship because it hasn't been in the Series too often vs. a team starved for the title because it has been in the Series all too often. But the most intriguing matchup of all is the most basic in baseball: pitching vs. hitting, Maddux and Co. vs. Albert Belle and the Indians' latter-day Murderers...
...only do Zimmerman and the fourth-seeded Crimson (11-10) face the one team that has dominated them in past years, tonight's matchup pits the freshman against his best friend and formal high school teammate, Kevin O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan--recruited by Brown last year--is a starting driver for the Bears, who enter the tournament as the fifth seed...
Until the younger Zimmerman's emergence on the scene, Harvard had not defeated Brown for four years. In September, Zimmerman helped to end that dismal streak as Harvard defeated Brown in the first matchup of the season between the Ancient Eight rivals...