Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday afternoon, the speedway was a gathering site, a place where shirtless men and bronzed women, crazy kids and old people who congregated in the top row of seats and wore big hats to keep the sun from their eyes, came to watch and cheer...
This year the kids in the front row--make that press row--are asking, no, expecting, Harvard to do it again...
Peterson. Peterson, an All-Ivy selection, finished third on the team in tackles last year with 50. He recovered two fumbles and forced another. He is the second defensive lineman in a row to become captain. "Defensively, I look to Captain Don Peterson," Restic said. "He had an exceptional year. He'll provide the leadership...
...perestroika display window on Gorky Street in downtown Moscow, passersby paused to stare and snicker. The hulking, black silhouette shown atop an awards stand was unmistakably that of Leonid Brezhnev, bushy eyebrows and all. But in place of his numerous military ribbons, the deceased Soviet leader wore a row of stripes labeled CORRUPTION, EMBEZZLEMENT, GRAFT and MONEYGRUBBING. The lower tiers of the stand, two caricatured gangsters -- one American, the other Italian -- stared up at Brezhnev with apparent surprise. The caption beneath the cartoon said it all: SO, MAFIOSO, YOU FINALLY "DIG" WHO IS THE REAL GODFATHER...
...only to think of Charity Hospital, whose first floor had gradually become its basement. There is a theory that the person responsible for the greatest change in the city was the engineer who finally figured out how to build massive skyscrapers on river effluent. The result was a row of huge oil-company office buildings and, on the edge of the French Quarter, a gaggle of high-rise hotels -- hotels large enough to hold the sort of national conventions that could make every night in the French Quarter seem like the Saturday night of the Tulane-L.S.U. game...