Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phills, the path to the top was not easy seeded third, he had to defeat the tournament's number one and two seeds, both of whom had downed Phills at last year's Eastern. In the final match against top seeded John Dougherty of Syracuse. Phills scored a tie breaking takedown with nine seconds remaining to earn a 13-11 decision. Beforehand, Phills disposed of second seed George Fears of Navy by Scoring an unexpectedly quick pin at the 1:27 mark of the match...
...gave her first royal wave (a sort of gentle, repeating karate chop with the hand slightly cupped), her schedule for the entire tour had been mapped out to the minute and the mouthful. Last November the Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea, walked every inch of the path that the Queen will tread during her tour. Everywhere she goes, the Queen is equipped with a precise tip sheet briefing her on names and issues to be either discussed or avoided...
...should have known better. The Power Broker, his 1,200-page study of New York's urban-development and highway czar Robert Moses, so unsettled its subject that he issued a rebuttal to Caro's many allegations. Despite objections, the book won a Pulitzer Prize. In The Path to Power, the 882-page first of three volumes on L.B.J., Caro argues, not always convincingly, that the 36th President illegally ran a blind trust fund from the Oval Office and that his avarice and cunning were rooted in childhood. If, as Emerson wrote, "geniuses have the shortest biographies," Caro...
While it is not uncommon for Harvard faculty to beat the well-trodden path between Cambridge and Washington, D.C., few have played such key roles in both as Dunlop...
Though Riggins came to Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke's casual pre-game party in white tie and tails, twirling a cane, he customarily dresses like someone who resides in a duckblind. "Riggo makes his own path in life," Washington Coach Joe Gibbs says, off tackle usually. For five seasons starting in 1971, Riggins was a member of the New York Jets and considered a bit strange even in New York City. Over money, he sat out the 1980 season in Washington. "I'm bored, I'm broke and I'm back," Riggins announced when...