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Word: repeat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard and St. Lawrence are the only two teams from last year to repeat as Final Four participants. Last year in the championship game, the Crimson defeated the Saints...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: What Joe Nieuwendyk Is Missing... | 3/9/1988 | See Source »

...medals, was most noticeable as he smiled bashfully at cameras and gave gentlemanly praise to racers who were beating him. The expectations game was at least as delusive among the women. Wasn't Michela Figini, the fiery Italian-Swiss who is the sport's best woman downhiller, supposed to repeat her Sarajevo victory? And then claw it out for most of the other medals with her teammate and nonfriend the formidable German-Swiss Maria Walliser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Champagne Runs | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Saturday at Blodgett Pool, Greene dove in the 3-meter diving finals of the Eastern Championships. The two-time defending champion in the event, Greene had already taken the one-meter event Thursday and was the favorite to repeat...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Nothing More Than a Fluke Dive | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...backstroke, the title and Eastern record went to Gretchen Ebner of B.U. with her time of 2:03.00. Harvard's Sheila Findley posted a record time in trials, but could not repeat her performance in the finals and finished fourth. Nonetheless, her morning time of 2:03.02 qualified her for the NCAA Championships as well as the Olympic trials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquawomen Float to Eastern Swimming Crown | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...anxious and grieving Jansen on the starting line that evening. At the outset he jumped the gun. To avoid a repeat and disqualification, he held back for a crucial moment at the second gun, then bore down to make up for lost time. He went down suddenly in the first turn, clipping Japanese Skater Yasushi Kuroiwa and slamming into the sideboard. Looking back, he said that he might have been pushing too hard. It seemed as likely though that emotional pressure had made a difficult curve impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: The Fall and Rise of Dan Jansen | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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