Word: win
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, they won a hotly-contested union election a year ago last May. Then they survived a protracted court battle with Harvard's biggest legal guns to win an endorsement by a National Labor Relations Board judge. Finally, Harvard capitulated and the union, after 17-plus years of organizing, was official...
...Stadium: As the Holy Cross defense lines up for the first play of the game, a large boulder falls from the sky and lands on the field, creating a crater the size of Tony Mandarich. The Crusaders trip and fall in. Harvard runs up the score to win...
...forwards. Mills will be joined by seniors Dave Kramer--who scored the game-winner against MIT last fall--and Nick D'Onofrio, who have seven years of starting experience between them. With this trio out in front. Getman hopes he can do better than last year's 1-0 win...
...with four or five rackets. (You never know when Chrissie or Andre or Mac is going to need a partner, I suppose.) Listen to their hushed analysis of Becker's last double fault--"The Bor-meister is going to have to get that serve in if he wants to win this game." Watch them willingly pay 35 bucks for a white T-shirt with a little "Fila" logo. They all deserve to be locked in a room with Bud Collins and Ilie Nastase...
...surely, has been her wholesome country-club blond good looks, her impeccable clothes sense, her unmistakable femaleness, even as she conditioned, dieted, lifted weights and practiced against men. Her career, launched at a time when many still professed to find something unfeminine in getting into shape and wanting to win, has helped legitimize running and sweating as suitable activities for two generations of women. Moralists hail her sportsmanship. In victory, Evert is exultant but not arrogant. In defeat, she congratulates opponents; she does not whine about maladies and misfortune. She has delighted feminists by regarding herself as a career woman...