Word: rode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard baseball team rode strong outings from a quartet of starting pitchers en route to a four-game sweep at last-place Brown--losers of 18 straight...
...demonstrated in late March, he is equally deft. The Tories had claimed "proof" that Blair was secretly planning to restore union power once in office. For many in Britain, calling someone a closet union lover is like saying in the U.S. that someone is soft on crime. Thatcher rode to Downing Street on a promise to curb union influence. If it worked for the Iron Lady, Major's camp figured, why not try it again? Trouble is, Blair's view that employees should be permitted to join a union if a majority vote to do so is neither...
DIED. EUGENIE ANDERSON, 87, first female U.S. ambassador; in Red Wing, Minnesota. Trained as a concert pianist, Anderson plunged into politics in Minnesota and was an organizer of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Truman named her ambassador to Denmark in 1949, where she rode a bicycle, as most Danes did. In the '60s she headed the legation in Bulgaria where she openly defied the secret police...
...Harvard rode the high wave into a semi-final matchup with the No. 2-ranked team in the nation, Boise State. The Crimson quickly exposed this team's inflated ranking by winning the doubles behind the solid play of Arnold and Blake as well as Tseng and sophomore Mike Passarella. Harvard sent the vanquished back to Idaho with a 4-1 victory...
...Knicks rode Ewing's 34 to take Game Four, the Bulls cruised to a Game Five win and two clutch free throws by Starks bailed New York out in Game Four...