Word: striker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even without its fallen leader, Harvard attacked from the outset, with substitute sweeper John Shue scoring the game-winner on a corner kick 16 minutes into the contest. Senior center forward Derek Mills swung the kick past MIT netminder Jack Olson. The loose ball was deflected by senior striker Nick D'Onofrio to Shue, who pounded a volley into the back of the open net for a 1-0 lead...
When three top party officials visited a hospitalized hunger striker, the angry student declared, "If you really wish to re-establish the Communist Party's prestige, you must first excise the official profiteers." Many Chinese courts have been trying to do just that. The judicial system handled 37,000 cases of profiteering last year, up 50% from 1987. More than 100 embezzlers and bribe takers were sentenced to death or life imprisonment...
...morning, after Li announced in a televised speech that "we must end the turmoil swiftly" and ordered troops into the city. While Li's raspy voice echoed from Tiananmen Square's loudspeakers, sirens wailed and blue lights flashed as an ambulance arrived to take away yet another weakened hunger striker. A full moon, shrouded in mist, gleamed above the Great Hall of the People. Some slept, some talked, and all waited for what the new day would bring...
Although his political views are incredibly outlandish (he has charged that Queen Elizabeth II is involved in a drug ring, and that former Vice President Walter F. Mondale is the tool of a communist conspiracy), his supporters are dedicated. The hunger-striker in the Square, who called LaRouche a "prisoner of war" and a "martyr," vowed to starve himself to protest the incarceration and "murder" of LaRouche. If he succeeds, I think we can write it off as natural selection...
...Brown striker Steve Lacy and Dartmouth forward Doug MacGinnitie have been named Ivy League Men's Soccer Co-Players of the Week for their performances this past weekend against Cornell and Harvard, respectively...