Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take long yesterday for the Crimson to stake its claim to this distinction. Fully aware that a Harvard win in the medley relay was a necessity, Geoff Seelen, David Lundberg, jack Gauthier, and Bobby Hackett whipped the finest quartet that the Hoosiers could put together, obliterating the university record with a 3:22.30 and qualifying for the NCAAs in the process...
...other wonders, in "The Badgers": "how perilous is it to choose/Not to love the life we're shown?" The artistic poet never resolves this artistic dilemna, but that doesn't matter. Heaney carefully considers the issues at stake, and finds contentment in language, though he's not wholly satisfied with the life of an artist. But in essence, the very existence of his poems is a resolution of his inner crisis. The poet deserves a great deal of credit for posing his difficult questions with such dexterity. All too often, contemporary poets feel compelled to interrupt fluent verse with awkward...
Pretenders, stake your claim. The decade of dominance may be over...
...exact nature of Carter's commitment was deliberately left unclear. The U.S. is not in a position to send troops into the country, but it could help out with air and sea power. One congressional leader privy to White House thinking said: "We feel that we have a stake in Yugoslavia's continued position of relative independence, as a buffer between the dominated satellites and the West. We are at some pains to ensure that the Russians not seize on the illness of Tito in he mistaken belief that Yugoslavia is not completely stable...
...member of the squash intelligentsia about Mike Desaulniers and you get responses like, "What can I say that wouldn't be trite?" His pure ability is beyond reproach; but he has more at stake now--this time, as captain, a team victory is everything...