Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson does prevail today, Restic will tie John Yovicsin for the school career wins record of 78. The 15-year mentor would also begin his quest for a fifth Ivy League title, an honor Harvard last won two years ago. Restic is clearly confident: "Going into the season," he predicts, "you have to pick yourself first...
Last spring, the Harvard women's volleyball team set out on a quest for a new coach. The spikers advertised, made countless phone calls and contacted almost everyone connected with the Eastern volleyball establishment...
Last spring, the Harvard women's volleyball team set out on a quest for a new coach. The spikers advertised, made countless phone calls and contacted almost everyone connected with the Eastern volleyball establishment...
...great surprise that in 1975 Czechoslovakia's Martina Navratilova jumped the fence to begin her independent quest for U.S. citizenship and a ranking as the world's No. 1 woman tennis player. As shaped by New York Times Sports Columnist George Vecsey, this appealing Reds-to-riches story is as impatiently direct as Navratilova's game. Points are made quickly, aggressively and with authority. "You need a tank to beat me," she tells a haughty Soviet opponent after the U.S.S.R. had invaded Czechoslovakia. The Americanization of Martina begins with a move to Beverly Hills and the purchase of a silver...
...essay about the city, "unless he is willing to be lucky." For White, the greatest New York, the one "that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition," was "the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something . . . the city of final destination, the city that is a goal." Once again, the city has become primarily, passionately a city of destination, the goal of millions who want to be rich, or to stop being poor. All over the planet, people who have never had a whiff of New York...