Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weren't offensive enough," Harvard Coach Nita Lamborghini said. "We were able to mount some second-half pressure, but not enough necessary scoring opportunities...
Perhaps the biggest match of the day was the number-one singles match between Bland and BU's Stacey Vogel. After dropping the first set and four of the first five games in the second set, Bland started to mount a comeback with her sharp serve and volley game...
...September of 1985, Ramos said she sought help at the emergency room of Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, agreeing to pay for care herself. According to the complaint, Ramos informed the emergency room supervisor, Dr. McGinn, that she had tested positive for AIDS, but McGinn recommended that Ramos receive a mental health evaluation...
Ando's buildings are precise and almost ostentatiously austere. He is seeking purity and purification. His town houses in Tokyo and Osaka are jewel- box bunkers, the concrete facades rigorously designed compositions of door, windows, fabrication scars and joints. The Protestant chapel (1985) on the top of Mount Rokko, outside Kobe, was the perfect Ando commission. "The process of preparing ourselves for the spirituality of religion takes time," he says, and so the entrance to the chapel is a colonnaded tunnel. The chapel itself is a deep, 24-ft. by 24-ft. concrete box, with one side an expanse...
Many of the new rich want to live like the old rich, and that is reflected in the classically grand facades of their houses. "One might look like Mount Vernon, one like the White House and one like Monticello," says Randolph Williams, developer of more than 20 luxury-home communities in the Washington suburbs. Inside, the new mansions often combine traditional elegance and modern glitz. Among the common features are mahogany trim, granite counter tops, marble floors, custom-made Palladian windows and spectacularly high ceilings...