Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading 8-4 after three rounds, Wellesley sent up its three top fencers to lead off the final round, needing just one more victory to clinch the match...
...Crimson staged a furious final-round rally, recovering from an 8-4 deficit to take the final four bouts and tie the match...
Sophomore Kristina Perkin completed the heroic efforts begun by her teammates with a 5-1 victory in the round's final match...
...some serious partying. Between meetings the visitors found time to schmooze and booze with their hosts, take in the sights and visit the Bolshoi and other Moscow theaters. The best place for stargazing was the cavernous marble lobby of the Kosmos Hotel, where Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov shuffled between round-table discussions and Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko appeared one morning in a bright red suit. Black Volga sedans and Chaika limousines waited outside the three designated hotels to ferry around the visiting VIPs, but many of the stars preferred to troop onto buses in a display of good comradeship...
...priestess Salammbo danced to the seductive warbling of a flute, her long white dress slowly fell to the ground, and she stood naked before the sacred python. Taking the serpent in her arms, she "wound it round her waist, under her arms, between her knees . . . Salammbo gasped beneath this weight . . . her back bent, she felt she was dying; and with the tip of its tail it gently flicked her thigh...