Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Silber Shocker...
First came the score from Ithaca, N.Y., where the Big Green had utilized three Dean Durkin field goals to take an 11-6 decision from the undefeated Cornell Big Red. Then the shocker, a late touchdown gave Brown a 24-17 decision over also-undefeated Penn in Providence. And finally, the expected Yale blowout over Columbia, 31-7, produced the logjam at the top of the league standings. Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn and Yale all lie at 2-1 with four games remaining to be played...
Rainey, junior Suzanne Jones and sophomore Catherine Griffin were the headline names in the indoor track team's Heps title. The women's swimming team finished just for points off the pace at Easterns and the women's basketball team finished its season with a one-point shocker at Briggs Cage over Ivy champion Dartmouth on a buzzer-beating layup by Jody Fink...
...asked that about ((the invasion of)) Cambodia once after a speech at Oxford. I said, "Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner." That was a shocker. And going further, Why didn't you do the May 8 bombing and mining sooner? Why didn't you do the December bombing sooner? And the point was, it should have been done sooner, but for one thing, I didn't feel first that the traffic would bear it within the Administration...
...surprising win came one night after another shocker--a three point loss to second-division Penn in Philadelphia...