Word: superteam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murmured occasionally during this gentle rain of nostalgia that, although Yale led in the series, 54-37 (there had been eight ties), its '83 warriors had underwhelmed eight opponents thus far and won only once. Harvard, with an upper-middling 5-2-2 record, loomed like a superteam...
...reappeared, along with its scruffy little half brothers, xenophobia and chauvinism. In an odd but exactly appropriate way, the new sentiment was crystallized most purely in Americans' jubilation over the U.S. hockey team's performance in the Olympics-the Huckleberry Finn American underdogs whipping the Soviet superteam and then going on for the gold medal...