Word: robin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This tale, oft told, always with a perfectly straight face, moves north each year with the melt. It is as much a harbinger of spring as a robin. Mud season is not winter and not quite spring. It is something in between, a few weeks transcending transition to become a season in itself. First comes a slow drip. Then a tentative trickle. Then the melt begins in earnest: a rush, a gurgle, a cascade. The earth squirts, muck and mire suck at boots, downhill becomes a torrent, uphill becomes a bog. Snowbanks dissolve, flowing over ground already saturated. The frost...
...Mana Pe (H) d Jan Sheburne 6-4, 7-5 4. Tina Bougas (H) d Jan Sheiburne 6-4, 7-54. Tina Bougas (H) d Anne Rentew 6-3 6 2 5 Jeannie Weinberg (P) d Debbe Kaufman 6 2 6 1 6 Deanne Loonan (H) d Robin Rosenberg...
Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
...athletic directors decided earlier this year to cancel championship events and replace them with round robin competition, but their softball squads don't receive enough financial backing to travel to all the other Ivy schools. And so, unlike most Ivy women's athletic tournaments, the softball teams will probably still attend league championships for the next few years...
...general consensus is that we'd like to retain the tournament." Harvard's Wentzell said. "Considering where softball is now, it's just not feasible for us to go round robin...