Word: win
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson (14-13 overall, 5-1 Ivy) will play for the championship in a doubleheader against Princeton (4-1 Ivy) tomorrow at Soldiers Field. One win will clinch a tie for the title. Two wins will take...
...tough loss," Rau said. "It was a heartbreaker at the end. It happens sometimes and it was too bad that it happened then because we really needed a win. That took the wind out of us for the second game...
Minkus feels that the Crimson can win at least two of the three doubles, if not all three...
...written proof that Betty ever did anything: no memos written by or to her, no memos written by others in which she is mentioned, no indication that she worked in Mallick's offices more than five to seven days a month. Even so, Wright's defense may win the sympathy of many of the 300-odd members of Congress whose wives or husbands also hold paid jobs. They are not at all eager to set a precedent that might encourage future investigators to ask exactly what it is their spouses do and what interest in legislation the spouses' bosses...
...screenwriter, Henley has dramatized elements only hinted at in her play, but the story is the same. Sweet, just slightly trampy Carnelle (Holly Hunter) determines to win the Miss Firecracker Contest as a way of standing up to the mocking townspeople and claiming some of the limelight that illuminates her chic, snooty cousin Elain (Mary Steenburgen). Two men, Carnelle's sometime lover Mac Sam (Scott Glenn) and Elain's wild brother Delmount (Tim Robbins), act as a geek chorus to the drama, but, typically in a Henley play, the real conflict is between young women clawing each other for respect...