Word: toughers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kids got taller and taller, jump balls were getting tougher. There were a lot of violations." McLaughlin says. Harvard center forward Monroe Trout, who has soared rafterward for all eight Harvard jump balls this season, adds, "people jump so quickly, trying to steal the tap--there was a lot of confusion...
...this time, however, so much snow had fallen that the going was even tougher, and it was almost nine o'clock when the bus hit Cambridge. Turning into Soldiers Field was another matter, and the vehicle ended up wedged between the stone gate posts at the parking lot entrance. Assorted people left there, but "there was another breakdown after that," said Cleary. "I didn't leave Dillon until noon...
...years ago, Bill Nicolai, 36, an avid backpacker, relied on food stamps to eat. After his tent was destroyed in a snowstorm in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, he designed a tougher tent to replace it and began offering it through the mail. Last year Early Winters, the hiking-equipment catalogue business Nicolai founded, had sales of $7.2 million, and he expects them to reach $10 million this year...
...Britain, for example, the royal wedding inspired an imitation cube that shows the Union Jack on four sides and the likenesses of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, on the other two. Because of its pictures, the royal cube is even tougher to solve than its Hungarian predecessor. While Rubik's Cube has a mere 43.2 quintillion (432 followed by 17 zeros) possible arrangements, the new British version has 88.6 sextillion (886 followed by 20 zeros) permutations...
...against tougher league opponents, McLaughlin has conceded that he will need all of his starters in top form to live up to some experts' predictions that the Crimson will sneak away with its first Ivy title...