Word: rio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After UMass handed the Crimson a 7-6 last minute loss in the quarterfinals of last year's NCAA tournament, no one East or West of the Rio Grande handed this year's Harvard squad a legitimate chance...
...died when UMass abruptly ended the careers of Harvard's five most talented players on last year's team, certainly another blossomed Saturday on wet and dreary Soldiers Field when Maggie Hart--straight from New Mexico's Rio Grande--lead the Crimson to new heights...
This pueblo has a resident population of about 3,300, and it controls about 67,000 acres. If it has its way, it will eventually control about 277,000 acres. Through the property runs the Rio Grande and Interstate 25. The Indians sold the right of way for the highway for $1.4 million. When they are not negotiating rights of way for roads, railroads, power lines, phone lines and gas lines, they can be found in Santa Fe or Albuquerque selling their jewelry or their property or Navajo blankets they have traded for. They also farm and tend cattle...
...yonder stand the thirsty cottonwoods (planted there a century ago by Army officers trying to please their wives) that indicate water, in this case the Rio Grande. And there, by a washed-out footbridge, a bandanna round his forehead and a bolo tie, secured by a silver-and-turquoise slide, round his neck, stands Domingo Atencio, the beginning of this tale...
...mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing, he said, and in those days, in winter, the only way a boy could prove to his mother that he had truly bathed was to sprint home from the Rio Grande while the ice still cleaved to his locks-a star-spangled...