Word: showdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Things did not go according to plan, however. Last Saturday, Columbia (1-0, 1-0 Ivy) shocked Harvard (0-1, 0-1 Ivy) 24-0, and tomorrow's showdown at Colgate (1-1) is suddenly a struggle for survival...
...Saturday, Harvard faced Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo in a five-game showdown...
Annan originally planned to speak last November, but an impending showdown between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the U.N. forced him to cancel...
...struggle between the President and Kenneth Starr, framed until now as a legal-political showdown, seemed to boil down this week to a subtler but perhaps more basic dispute: the conflict between the Clintonites' desire for something known as "closure" (a New Age buzz word drawn from the vocabulary of family therapy) and the cry from other quarters for what used to be called justice (a term one associates more with the Old Testament). Indeed, if an alien were to view the tapes of Clinton's recent TV defenders, he, she or it might be inclined to think that "closure...
...inspired "Showdown" graphic promised punchiness. But panel weakened with lopsidedly conservative guests. Points for pushing Senator Hatch into his most agitated state of the night...