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Word: rocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, after dropping a 13-3 decision yesterday morning to defending champion Slippery Rock, Harvard faced familiar rival MIT in the third-place game and ended its season with a 10-6 victory over the Engineers...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Aquawomen Place 3rd In Easterns Tourney | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Yesterday morning, Harvard shut down Slippery Rock's frontcourt offense, but the Crimson couldn't stop the officials from blowing the whistles. Nine ejections were called in the game against Harvard. Slippery Rock scored seven times with the Crimson down a player...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Aquawomen Place 3rd In Easterns Tourney | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Crimson's depth will come into play from 4-6, where Farrell, Mulvehal and Minkus have been steady as a rock. They have posted a 17-2 singles record since the team's trip to California over spring break...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Battle Tigers for Ivy Crown | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

Harvard opens on Friday with a first-round game against Michigan. The team expects tough competition from Bucknell, MIT, and Queens, in addition to defending champion Slippery Rock, who is again seeded first...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: The Aquatic Notebook | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...there any way to avoid collisions with asteroids and comets? Perhaps. A nuclear warhead aimed right at a small asteroid could vaporize it, says Alan Harris, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But the warhead might also simply break the rock into pieces that would hit the earth anyway. A better plan, proposed by concerned scientists in the early 1980s, would be to use explosives to deflect an asteroid rather than destroy it. Properly positioned, a bomb could nudge a threatening object enough to make it miss the planet. The catch, says Harris, is that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whew! That Was Close | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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