Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Rugby Football Club ran into a similar obstacle Saturday in the opening round of the New England Championships at UMass/Amherst. The Crimson huffed and puffed--tried and tried--but fell one try short. And it was Northeastern, a bigger, badder team, that blew down the Crimson...
Down the stairs into the dark, smoky, vaguely Spanish atmosphere of Cafe Pamplona. It is crowded. The small, round tables are filled with eclectic groupings--several European-looking men sit alone, smoking and staring reflectively. Their coffee cups are perched on stacks of papers. I imagine the manuscript of their latest play, or the translation of a Marguerite Duras novel...
...Minutewomen (14-1) lived up to their name--storming the Harvard penalty area with shots that could have rung round the world. UMass fired its way past the Crimson (6-3-1 overall, 1-0-2 Ivy League) in a fast-paced, physical clash between the top two teams in the Eastern Region...
...scientists and support crew listed for a given flight had to leave the hotel soon after midnight to prepare the plane and its research instruments. Once airborne, the DC-8 would bank south toward Antarctica, 1,000 miles away, fighting vicious winds before settling into a twelve-hour round-trip flight at altitudes of up to 40,000 ft. Along the way, the instruments continuously collected data on atmospheric gases, airborne particles and solar radiation high above the frozen continent. Meantime, parallel flights took off from Ibanez to gather additional atmospheric data at nearly twice the altitude. Manned...
...candidate will be, Takeshita or Abe, remains a question. To the delight of Miyazawa, who is fishing for allies, the Abe-Takeshita alliance is rickety. As Abe puts it, "There is only one chair for us to sit in. We can't solve the problem with a round of golf, which I would surely...