Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lions (7:02.26) and the Engineers (7:02.10) had a tight race for second, and MIT squeaked ahead by only two-tenths of a second...
...boat was very nervous about this race," coxswain and Captain Leigh Weiss said. "We expected a very intense race and to be side by side with Cornell all the way down the course...
...race for us, and we're very pleased," Weiss said. "Our coach [Liz O'Leary] saw it as a crucial, crucial race, and to win by such big margins was great...
That question would be explosive if the contender were a safe token, a man who had held all the right offices, adopted all the sensible positions, and differed from the majority's norms only by the accident of his race. But this contender challenges all the established verities at once. For Jackson, the illegitimate son of a teenage mother, is a fiery preacher who rose to national prominence through controversy and tumult, and he now heads a left-wing populist movement that confronts the centrist assumptions of political life...
...from the umpteenth retelling of a beloved family anecdote to a mock- scandalized peek through the window at the neighbors, from the swing of a baseball bat to the cradling of a newborn child. Like the blues music he threads through them, his plays transcend ethnicity. Playgoers of any race who come as emotional tourists depart realizing they have seen themselves reflected onstage...