Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Planning Director Kathy Spiegelman said Harvard decided to sell the building because "we had made a commitment to the city not to purchase the residential buildings beyond a certain area," referring to Harvard's 1975 agreement to stay within a "red line" surrounding the campus...
...keeping with his teammates, junior John Murphy decided not to wait until January--like he did last season--before lighting up the red. Murphy netted a power-play goal in Friday's first period to give the Crimson a 3-0 advantage over Yale...
...might say other teams in other sports have suffered similar fates. Look, you might say, at the Boston Red Sox. They have come close so many times to a World Series championship. But they haven't won one since 1918. The Cleveland Browns have not suffered as much as the Red Sox, you might say. So stop complaining...
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I detect an element of masochism in Boston baseball fans. Baseball-minded Bostonians, I think, take a certain pleasure in watching their team lose. They feed on heartbreak. The Red Sox are an annual Greek tragedy. Rise, fall and catharsis...
...Red Sox are Greek heroes, the Browns are a bunch of Willy Lomans, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. Nothing would be more uplifting to the city of Cleveland, a lunch-pail town with a drab reputation, than a Browns championship. But the Browns' work-a-day efforts have been thwarted the last two years. And now, after Sunday's loss, they seem destined to fall from the heights of disappointment into the morass of mediocrity...