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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most curious sight during the meet was Crimson coach Pappy Hunt, who rode alongside his runners in the team van and yelled encouraging remarks at them out the window...
With the British trapped in Boston, Cambridge became the cork on the bottle. Thousands of colonials poured into the town, sending Harvard to Concord so the College buildings could be used as barracks. But most of the soldiers slept in tents, a sight Emerson described: "Who would have thought, 12 months past, that all Cambridge would be covered with American camps and cut up into forts and entrenchments?... It is very diverting to walk among the camps. They are as different in forms as the owners are in their dress, every tent a portraiture of the temper and tastes...
...were supposed to win it all that year. Instead, they had choked in the quarter-finals against the Maple Leafs. The series ended before the usual sell-out at the Coliseum when Lanny McDonald scored at 4:13 of overtime in the decisive seventh game. It was a wondrous sight, to see a sports arena become a morgue...
...been in the midst of labor negotiations at the time of the coup. There were soldiers on duty on city streets and bridges, and a cluster of blue-bereted commandos chatted idly outside Istanbul's Blue Mosque. Otherwise, the armed forces tried to keep discreetly out of sight as much as possible. Along the 300-mile road between Istanbul and Ankara, foreigners found few troops in evidence. Both deposed Prime Minister Demirel and Opposition Leader Bülent Ecevit remained under detention at a military resort hotel in Hamzaköy, near Gallipoli. They could receive telephone calls...
...room after practice, pulling off his sweat-soaked uniform and, too tired to stand, sitting on a chair in the shower. As he relaxed, Bryant called the team back on the field for another practice. Baking in the sun, Crow fainted and was out for three hours. The first sight he saw upon regaining consciousness was Bryant, hovering anxiously over...