Word: ref
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harrington and her friends, who will head up to Vermount to go skiing tomorrow for the rest of their spring break, even found some of the Crimson cheers amusing. The state school cheer-was funny, but the one about the ref and his wife was queer," she said...
...consensus on defense, foreign policy and economic management. This time it was different. The 43.4 million voters were split as rarely before over a spectrum of choices for the country's future, ranging from newly activist radical forces advocating drastic change f to a conservative coalition bent on ref turning to some of the virtues of a bygone era. How to remedy a flagging economy with a record 2.54 million unemployed provoked sharply different ideological approaches. The defense issue was equally divisive. Torn over the consequences of either deploying or refusing to accept a new generation of NATO missiles...
...next minute was microcosm of the Crimson victory. For 45 seconds the Lions passed the ball around the perimeter of the Harvard zone, looking for an opening that never materialized. Columbia needed an extra step, the ref whistled traveling and Harvard had the ball. Seven seconds later Crimson guard Bob Ferry sank two free throws; Harvard was ahead for good...
...minutes of the second half had been played, the contest remained close. The Crimson turned a one-point halftime deficit into a four-point second half lead But at that point, as Horne described it, "the female referce started calling more fouls that she had before. Then the male ref, as though they were competing or something, started calling the pickiest fouls." She added: "It wasn't even a really physical game...
...coward," said Shattuck after the game of the ref. "Even the B.U. coach came up to me afterwards and said," You were robbed...