Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's best performance appeared in the first game, when the match's furious pace foreboded the war to come. The contest was so close that neither team led by more than three points at any time. Pitt managed to open leads of 2-0, 4-2 and 7-5, but each time the Crimson fought back to tie the score through superb defense and the inspired outside spiking of senior Mark Chang and junior David Twite...
...rampaging waist-high water that cut off electricity in 10,000 homes and telephone service everywhere. The city, sitting more than 5 ft. below sea level in some areas, is ordinarily kept dry by its extensive drainage pumping system, but this time the pumps were unable to keep pace. Stranded residents switched to boats and canoes. For Rose Hushfield in the suburb of Arabi, it was the third time in five years that her house had been flooded. "You get to where there are no more tears...
Condors usually produce only a single offspring every two years. That gives them plenty of time to tend their young, which take as long as seven years to mature, in a lifetime of perhaps 40 years. But this plodding pace limits the population growth of the big fidgety birds, which have been brought to the edge of extinction by hunting, loss of habitat and even stress from their contacts with humans, including perhaps overzealous researchers. Once the precious eggs were taken, the scientists felt, the would-be parents might be stirred into a new round of lovemaking...
...book is already some 230 pages old when Menenhetet I eases into this narration, and none of the characters seems in any hurry to pick up the pace. Worse, Mailer shuns the devices that can make long pieces of fiction irresistible. Suspense is banished: everything has already happened in Ancient Evenings, not only historically, but also in the lives of its people. Nothing is surprising, except perhaps how polymorphously perverse and consistently swinish the ancients were, according to their newest historian...
...other semi-final match pits a strong University of Pittsburgh squad against underdog Albany State. The Panthers' fast, confusing offense, featuring much switching and low, quick sets should dominate Albany State. Should Harvard meet Pitt in the finals the spikers will counter the Panthers' furious pace with quickness up front from Chang and Twite. In this scenario Ross' height will be especially missed...