Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe we are completely ready to host the Games The Winter Olympic Games, as anyone who has attended these wondrous chilblain festivals will testify, can be counted on for natural and man-made disasters of a kind unmatched since the early days of polar exploration. The arresting uncertainty every four years is not whether a pickup team of U.S. hockey players can confound the world by winning again, or even whether the Olympic committee can exceed its previous stuffiness in the matter of amateurism (it can: two champion skiers, Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark and Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel, were ruled...
...Saturday night, Hallinan slipped on a jetty as he was boarding the Ann Blessey and fell into the icy water near the bow. It took ten minutes for the crew to fish him out. "That was the biggest excitement we've had," said Wills. "Leo joined the Polar Bear Club...
With the Crimson's first, third and fifth seeded players on a weekend sabbatical at a national invitational tournament at Princeton, even a rearranged lineup proved too strong for the visiting Polar Bears...
...NOTEBOOK: This weekend Staley and Iselin travel to Princeton to take on the top seeds of other women's teams. The events should draw many of the best U.S. collegiate players. The rest of the squad travels to Bowdon Saturday to play the Polar Bears in the Crimson's last match before February...
Saturday at the University of Maine in Orono, Me., the Harvard women's swimming team defeated the Polar Bears, 76-64. Debbie Zimic, with first-place finishes in the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter butterfly and a first-place tie in the 500-meter freestyle, and Allison Greis, with victories in the 400-meter and 200-meter breaststroke, led the aquawomen to victory...