Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything was looking good. At the tail end of a miraculous weekend, the mood was set for a miraculous win over Brown. The question in everyone's minds was: Could it really happen...
Then in the third set, both teams came out tough, knowing that a win then would be crucial. Again, Schossberger and Lopeter kept Harvard in it. After a lot of back-and-forth play, the game was deadlocked, 13-13. But again, the front line of FDU came through with three big points to give its team to victory...
...fifth-straight win for Yale (7-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy) sets up a showdown next week at Princeton with a share of the Ivy title at stake...
...deceptively simple design -- entry No. 1,026 in a contest she never dreamed she would win -- had enabled America not only finally to confront the outcome of the Viet Nam War but also to begin the long process of healing. The memorial made it possible for the country to come together and honor those who had served -- those who had died and those who had come home to anything but a hero's welcome. Lin was proud of her achievement, yet disillusioned by the negative reactions her design had initially elicited ("a black gash of shame," to cite...
Oliver and Waldeck win over listeners because they are entertainers first and crusaders second. Dressed in T shirts and sneakers, they mix humor with their anger, and fun with their activism. In one number, Waldeck strolls around the stage under an umbrella. The lyric: "I walk the shores of Lake Champlain/ in the placid acid rain." In another tune, Waldeck dreams of being reincarnated as a "big, wrecking ball" so he can "crack down on condos." But fast-food executives would not find the show especially funny. "Lay down your Whopper and your fries," one song goes. "Save a rain...