Word: toughers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since early February the wintery weather's reign has been tougher to handle than most Harvard opponents. In recent months, snow-free Crimson playing fields have been rarer sights than construction-free days in Harvard square...
...upcoming primaries in Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania will provide a tougher test for Jackson. Northern blacks traditionally are less swayed by appeals from the black church, which has been the power plant of Jackson's campaign. But after his impressive showings on Super Tuesday and in Saturday's Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina caucuses, the two front runners cannot take him lightly. Says black State Representative Robert Holmes of Atlanta: "Jackson's candidacy sends a message to liberals like Mondale that they will have to do more than mouth tokenisms...
...think Princeton, Brown, Yale and Harvard are going to be playing some of the tougher teams in the area, like UMass and Maine, teams we haven't been playing a lot before, and I hope this added experience will show at the tournament," the Crimson mentor says...
...defense as one thing that attracted them. Says Steven Nesich, 30, a marketing consultant from Seattle: "The Reaganites have a knee-jerk reaction to defense: 'Build it.' The liberals have a knee-jerk reaction: 'Don't build it.' Hart sees a leaner, tougher defense that would cost us far less and be more effective...
...This wasn't the first time we had played tonight. We've played five of six times in practice. And, to put it bluntly, the competition in practice is tougher than this tonight...