Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interviews are like riding a seesaw. If a player prevails too easily, one end bangs to the ground. There should be no automatic victors-neither overbearing interviewers nor subjects too slickly practiced in evasion. The real winner is supposed to be a third party, the public...
Desaulniers the younger lost to Tiger John Nimick 3-1 in a seesaw bout which provided spectators with both tie-breaker play and a lopsided 15-4 laugher that Nimick took...
...seesaw continued throughout most of the first half, with UMass building up a bigger and bigger lead as they monopolized the boards and consistently broke through Harvard's tentative 1-3-1 zone defense...
...Bulldogs' remarkable seesaw began with preseason events both ridiculous and sublime. Dooley nearly lost six players because of disciplinary infractions. But he gained one player who has, almost singlehanded, put the Georgians on top once again: Herschel Walker, one of the flashiest running backs in the history of college football. The best news is that Walker is only a freshman...
Just 60 miles from Kabul, in fact, in the Ghorband Valley leading to the city of Bamiyan (pop. 47,000), seesaw battles between Soviet troops and bands of insurgents are said to have caused heavy casualties on both sides. In the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, the Soviets have apparently given up their attempt to dislodge the fierce mujahidin (Islamic warriors) from their strongholds. Similarly, Soviet troops have been unsuccessful in efforts to reimpose order on the lawless city of Herat in the northwest, and have only managed to maintain a tenuous and frequently interrupted hold on Kandahar...