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Word: ring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other teams in the league do that, there's no telling how many yards Yohe will throw for in his senior year. But since he already owns the Harvard record book and an Ivy League championship ring from last year's Cinderella season, there doesn't seem much left for Yohe...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Running and Throwing His Way Into the Record Books | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

...like 117,000 special forces for security on call, some of whom will be mingling in the crowds in plainclothes to make sure that nothing bad happens. They've checked the backgrounds of all the people who live within 500 yards of the Olympic Village. Finally, there are four rings of security boats off the coast to make sure that nothing bad comes in from the ocean. I think the outermost ring is the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juliet Thompson Begins Olympic Journey | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...early 1980s. Eight other officials will be in the dock, including the former Uzbek Interior Minister and several regional police chiefs. If found guilty, the defendants could be sentenced to death. Churbanov's wife Galina, who is Brezhnev's daughter and has been linked to a Moscow diamond-smuggling ring, may be called to the witness stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Inc. Comes to Moscow | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...cram too much onto the screen in too little time. Perhaps if he had focused tightly on the team's inner dynamics, seen the unfolding tragedy entirely through the players' eyes and kept everyone else at a distance, he might have done better. But outsiders, ranging from ) sportswriters like Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn); Third Baseman Weaver (John Cusack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Brave Cuts at a Knuckle Ball EIGHT MEN OUT | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...curious example of violence spilling over from the arena into the streets, Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson and one of his earliest ring conquests staged an impromptu rematch in New York City around 4:30 a.m. outside a 125th Street haberdashery that boasts a formidable clientele. Anyone purchasing a necktie at that hour better at least have been the champion of the Pacific fleet. After giving Mitch ("Blood") Green a Carmen Basilio facial, crumpling one of his licensed hands in the process, Tyson momentarily faced charges brought not by the law but by Green. They were eventually dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spilling Over into the Streets | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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