Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week the Pitt Panthers join the incessant parade of national championship claimants, but not to worry. The Pitt team that barely got past Boston College Saturday will lose to Penn State in three weeks, if it lasts that long...
Ahead 29-24 with just over eight minutes left, Marino and company turned the ball over three times inside their own 40-yard line. The first two times Marino threw interceptions, so Pitt coach Jackie Sherrill decided to grind it out on the ground. The result was a fumble by Bryan Thomas...
...Labor and the Tories. When the count was in, the alliance candidate had won a stunning victory, taking 40% of the vote, vs. 30.5% for the Conservatives and 26% for Labor. "We have split the old party system wide open and shown there is a real alternative," insisted William Pitt, the victorious Liberal candidate. Pitt (no kin to the 18th century Prime Minister) had lost in the constituency three times before. With his triumph, declared S.D.P. Leader Shirley Williams, "we have broken the credibility barrier...
...standing in the polls, moreover, it was an election that Labor, bedeviled with internal problems of its own, could not afford to lose if the party were to retain its standing in opposition. For the recently created alliance, the race was the big chance. Victory for Pitt offered the untested Liberal-S.D.P. coalition the prize of becoming a genuine new force in the center of Britain's polarized politics...
...affluent neighborhoods, and street on street of red brick houses occupied by skilled workers and low-level managers. For weeks, the big names of all three parties, including former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath and Labor Leaders Michael Foot and Denis Healey, campaigned hard for their candidates. Although Pitt had earlier refused to stand down in favor of Shirley Williams, he was supported by the S.D.P.'s top team-William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Williams-as well as by Liberal Leader David Steel...