Word: stranglehold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year that Harvard's five-year stranglehold on the national nine-man and Ivy titles would...
Princeton captured first place with 56 points, while the Crimson snagged second place with 49. The Tiger victory ended Harvard's seven-year stranglehold on the six-man title...
Before the 1987-'88 Ivy League season, some experts predicted that Yale and Princeton would break Harvard's winning streak and end its five-year stranglehold on the Ivy and national nine-man championships...
...Costello put forth another unrivalled performance, leading the Crimson with two individual victories and a triumph in the 200-yd. medley relay. The sophomore retained her stranglehold on the breastroke events, capturing the 100-yd. in 1:05.27 and snagging...
...Waterman run a kind of pop-star atelier in South London, where "we have pretty much a hard and fast rule that no one we work with is over 25. There are too many aging rockers hanging on to the charts." Actually, it was SA&W that had a stranglehold on the English charts for most of 1987. The production team sold 35 million singles and 12 million albums, and they like to say "We are the charts." "They're very contemporary in what they do," says Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. "However, their lyrical content...