Word: trios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acting directly or through subordinates, this trio last week worked to spread a long-standing unsubstantiated rumor designed to humiliate new House Speaker Thomas Foley. Just as Foley was poised to take the gavel from departing Speaker Jim Wright's hand, a memo from the Republican National Committee was circulating to state party chairmen and G.O.P. Congressmen. Titled "Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet," the memo compared his voting record with that of Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, an acknowledged homosexual. For days, an aide to Republican minority whip Newt Gingrich had been calling more than a dozen reporters...
...Crimson may have finished with its first NCAA title in 85 years, but it only won five Ivy titles and a trio of Eastern crew crowns...
...protesting the blatant exercise of electoral larceny in Panama, a band of T-shirted men suddenly appeared carrying wooden clubs and metal pipes. With grotesque inappropriateness, they styled themselves the Dignity Battalion. As troops of the Panama Defense Force nonchalantly looked on, the thugs closed in on the victorious trio who three days earlier had easily defeated the handpicked candidates of Panamanian General Manuel Antonio Noriega for the posts of President and First and Second Vice Presidents. Suddenly the thugs grabbed the bodyguard of Guillermo Ford, the candidate for Second Vice President, shoved him against a car, thrust...
After going down 4-0 in Game One, freshman reliever Pete Rau pitched six scoreless innings and was backed by a trio of homers from the Harvard hitters to pull the Crimson (9-16 overall, 3-9 EIBL) even with the Cadets...
Other bitter souls call for more extreme punishments. One even suggested giving the trio front row tickets to the British Soccer League championships. But not even the most hard-hearted jury in the country would go for that...