Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...step person' on the Northwest steps at the time of the occupation; I remember well that each of the four steps of University Hall had its own leadership and prolonged discussions through the night time hours about what our posture (political and physical) would be if and when a police bust happened. For years afterward, I wore those orangish brown wool pants with pride--my Mom had patched with a big black patch the rip at the knee from getting knocked down the steps by the cops. Did I get clubbed, kicked, or shoved down the steps...
Some other less formal honors for Harvard included a congratulatory message by the pilot of the Northwest Airlines plane that flew the team back to Boston, and a banner on the facade of The Coop congratulating the team...
...Crimson won two of four matches to place 11th in the U.C.-Irvine Tournament. It blanked Claremont-Mudd, 9-0, and pulled out a close win over Northwest Louisiana, 5-4. The two losses came at the hands of Nebraska and Utah by identical 6-3 scores...
...question, an observer decides, after asking it of Stacy Allison and Peggy Luce; to mountaineers, the answer is a shrug. The odds are the odds. Allison, a contractor and house framer from Portland, Ore., and Luce, a bicycle messenger from Seattle, members of a U.S. expedition from the Pacific Northwest, were among the 33 summit climbers. More important, as these matters are reckoned, they were the first and second U.S. women in history to reach the 29,108-ft. top of Everest (among the 200-odd climbers who had summited before were six other women, beginning with Japan's Junko...
...weather experts point out that there are no records of back-to-back nationwide droughts. In Ohio and Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the snowpacks of the Rockies, the grim dryness seems at last to have been broken. But in the Missouri River basin and the Pacific Northwest and along parts of the East Coast, the debilitating moisture deficits remain...