Word: warmup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the Crimson did not overlook the sixth-ranked Quakers, winning 9-0, the match was little more than a warmup for Sunday's battle. Junior co-captain Tal Ben-Shachar admits the team "had prepared for the Princeton match over the whole season...
...though, her best comes on single shots or at most single games. Martina can no longer play a Martina match. The woman who once won 54 straight matches, lost one, then won 74 more, now keeps losing to players who have no business beating her. Last week in the warmup at Eastbourne it was Meredith McGrath of Michigan. Each defeat makes her less fearsome to the next journeywoman, often young enough to be her daughter...
...night of the Administration's nafta victory, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and his wife welcomed Washington's brightest and best to their 50th wedding anniversary party. Among the 250 guests gathered at Blair House were both Clintons, most of the Cabinet, and ... dressed down in a cozy white warmup outfit, CNN's Larry King, who astonished fellow guests by exclaiming, "They owe it all to me!" Presumably King was referring to NAFTA and not the Bentsens' half-century of marriage...
...very good warmup, but when the whistle blew, it didn't click--we just watched," Harvard Coach Sue Caples said...
...played totally different games against Princeton and Navy," senior Per Dutton said in the wake of the Crimson's first loss since a December warmup tourney at the University of Rhode Island...