Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slaves such as Frederick Douglass fought vehemently for abolition. Just as these Northern whites chose to ignore Douglass (no doubt feeling that they knew better than he), so does Robert Conway ignore the sentiments of men like Nelson Mandela, the late Steven Biko, and the late Nobel Prize Winner and African National Congress Chairman Albert J. Luthuli, who has said. "The economic boycott of South Africa will entail undoubted hardship for Africans. We do not doubt that. But if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing...
...deciding game, both players came alive, and the play became fast and furious. Dowling matched Tinney point for point. With the score knotted at 14, the Crimson freshman stuck a finger up at the Midshipman, indicating that the next point would win the match. Seconds later, Dowling hit the winner and a chorus of cheers rose from his teammates, who had been watching intensely...
Encounters with powerhouses like the University of New Hampshire--the winner last year of the University Cup which represents the championship of North America--tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Bright Center will only help the squad in the long run, Dooley said...
...North, passing to North on the left side, breaking up the middle, taking the return pass and heating Draper from close range. Wheeler almost scored on a similar play with four minutes left in regulation, but put his shot over the net, so that he could score the game winner in more dramatic fashion a few minutes later...
...problem is, Coach Bill Cleary didn't have his top stars signed to long-term contracts. When June rolled around, eight letter-men, including Mark Fusco, winner of last year's Hobey Baker Award as the top collegiate player in the nation, picked up their diplomas. And two talented centers who would be juniors this year aren't back, either: Scott Fusco is playing, with brother Mark, for the U.S. Olympic team, and Greg Chalmers is spending a year working in a hospital in Edmonton, near his hometown...