Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks later, the time was ripe. The facts, rubbed shiny for retelling, are these: On Dec. 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, seamstress for the Montgomery Fair department store, boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus. She took a seat in the fifth row--the first row of the "Colored Section." The driver was the same one who had put her off a bus 12 years earlier for refusing to get off and reboard through the back door. ("He was still mean-looking," she has said.) Did that make her stubborn? Or had her work in the N.A.A.C.P. sharpened her sensibilities so that...
...than a year later, on Dec. 21, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated) is a study of calm strength. She is looking out the bus window, her hands resting in the folds of her checked dress, while a white man sits, unperturbed, in the row behind her. That clear profile, the neat cloche and eyeglasses and sensible coat--she could have been my mother, anybody's favorite aunt...
...Crimson started winning and never looked back. Harvard blew out ECAC doormats like Colby by scores of 15-0 and squeaked past contenders such as Northeastern in overtime, 7-6. No matter what the final score, the Crimson won 30 games in a row. Along the way, Harvard captured its first Beanpot championship since 1995, its first Ivy League title since 1988-89 and its first ECAC crown ever...
...Following its opening night win over B.U., the Crimson dropped eight of its next nine games, including six in a row. Harvard even had a contest at UNH cancelled because the Massachusetts Board of Health quarantined the team to campus due to its exposure to whooping cough...
...pleased that I came back from the second round loss to win four in a row," DeNunzio said. "In the past I have not responded to loss very well. This just got me over another obstacle. The end results were not what I wanted but I am still pleased...