Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither team performed well enough to dominate, allowing the lead to switch several times throughout the game. Shooting percentages sank to about 30 percent for both teams and the ball changed possession with the frequency of a cheap hand radio. Although neither team really won. Army lost the first half, while Harvard lost the second half by more...
...third stanza Harvard busted the contest wide open, victimizing Gandy four times in three minutes. First a Tony Visone back-hander made it 4-0. Then a Mitch Olson blooper that popped out of Gandy's glove and a tricky sinker off Mark Fusco's stick led to a switch in the Dartmouth...
...need help is Sam Scalamoni. When he first appears in the back of the dark theater singing "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" and sporting a multi-colored tailcoat, Scalamont fills the house by himself. Scalamont, cast as both John the Bapost and Judas, nandies madness subtly the switch from Christ's right-hand man to His betrayer, gradually separating himself from the other joyful, rag-clad actors. He easily outshines James Weatherstone, who is uninspiring as Jesus, and in their vaudvillian duet. "All for the Best," Scalamoni dominates the stage. Surprisingly, since his is the outstanding performance...
...powerful coalition of about 6 million active and retired civil servants. Barely had the commission's final report appeared, when FAIR began mounting a $3 million lobbying and public relations campaign against a proposed requirement that newly hired federal employees participate in the system. FAIR charges that the switch would bankrupt the healthy $96 billion civil service retirement fund, saddle Congress with $185 billion in future uncovered pension obligations, and deprive the Government of $2 billion in taxes now paid on their benefits by federal retirees...
...have been camping for the past 18 weeks on a 6-ft. by 48-ft. platform at the base of a billboard nearly overhanging the interstate cloverleaf in Allentown, Pa. Whoever stays longest wins. WSAN, a local AM radio station that advertises on the billboard, sought to promote its switch from country and western to nostalgia music last fall by launching the giveaway contest. To qualify, listeners had only to send in 25-words-or-less statements about why they wanted to compete. To the astonishment of Program Director Gene Werley, 600,000 entries flooded the station from hardy souls...