Word: par
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter--Harvard won, but concentration lapses have plagued the Crimson all year. Earlier this season, the team fell into a pattern of playing an outstanding first half followed by a sub-par second half...
Sewing their own uniforms, picking black and white as the team colors "simply because it wasn't crimson," and often racing with sub-par shells, Cervilla and her fellow alumnae were clearly aware of their pioneering role...
...recently denied that his stimulus plan was ever a centerpiece of his economic program, much as he once erroneously denied that his pledge of tax relief for the middle class was the linchpin of the scheme he propounded so successfully during the Democratic primaries. Backtracking on campaign promises is par for the course (and often prudent), but cavalier dissembling strains a President's credibility and complicates his task immeasurably...
Nobody in the field came within four shots of breaking par, and the Harvard men's golf team, did only "respectably," in the words of Coach Bob Leonard...
Emblematic of the Crimson's problems was the 10th hole, a par-four of around 400 yards, with a 45-degree incline facing golfers on their second shots and a green with the flatness of the Alps once up the hill. Three of Crimson golfers missed putts inside of four feet after poor lags to the far-left pin position. But Radtke had perhaps the cruelest break of all. His drive was too perfect, stopping halfway down a slope, impeded by a burrowing animal hole, and leaving him with no chance to hit a shot with enough elevation to clear...