Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes into the second half, Brown began to mount pressure on Harvard goalie Tracee Whitley. A series of crossing passes chased the sophomore back and forth in the box until one cross struck gold...
...entire controversy was made moot, however, by UMass' domination of play. Harvard's offense never got a chance to benefit from the smaller field because it seldom had control of the ball long enough to mount a legitimate drive on goal...
Calvino takes for his instrument a highly unliterary device: that great observation post of modern technological man, the gigantic telescope on Mount Palomar in Southern California. He perches a pair of unsteady eyeglasses on the balding crown of the observatory. The critical mass of our atomic age is passe; we have moved on to critical distance in the what-comes-next age. Middle-aged Mr. Palomar is the clumsy seer. Mr. Calvino is the critic, shooting from the hip the question for scientific man in his midlife crisis--"'What color is your parachute?'...or haven...
About ten years ago, the Mount Herman Academy crew and their coach Charles Hamilton came up to Cambridge to row in the youth eights. "The first boat to come through lost three oars when they hit the abutment of the middle arch," Olrich says. "Then the second boat hit the arch and it hobbled to the finish. By that time Charlie Hamilton couldn't look anymore, and sure enough the third boat...
Arnie Armour, the hot dog mascot, had a wholly different problem, however. He couldn't ride in the parade because the constraints of his costume--an upright frank--made it impossible for him to mount an elephant...