Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse Jackson has sprinted to the front ranks of the Democratic presidential race, Secret Service agents have checked out at least 100 death threats against him. Last week some of those ugly words proved alarming. In St. Louis a federal grand jury indicted Construction Worker Londell Williams, 30, of Washington, Mo., for boasting that he planned to assassinate Jackson "because he was getting too close to being President." Williams and his wife Tammy, 27, were also charged with possessing an automatic rifle and threatening a Government informer...
Earlier this year, the President vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which bars institutions which receive federal assistance from discriminating on the basis of sex, race, age, or physical handicap. Fortunately, on March 22, Congress soundly overturned the Reagan veto...
October 24, 1987: The Harvard football team finds a new hero--diminutive running back Bob Glatz--and the Crimson roars past Princeton, 24-19. Glatz rushes for 70 yards and catches 64 yards worth of passes to help keep Harvard in the race for the Ivy title...
April 16, 1988: Over the weekend, the baseball team captures three of four games against Brown and Yale. Freshman Aron Allen goes 10-for-12 on the weekend. The pitching is solid. Harvard seems destined to play a role in the EIBL pennant race...
...baseball team falls out of the EIBL pennant race--surrendering the title to Penn--by finishing 2-2 in weekend games against Columbia and Army...