Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wind will slam him back into the cold concrete. The chute snaps open, the sound ricocheting through the gorge like a gunshot, and McGuire is soaring, carving S turns into the air, swooping over a winding creek. When he lands, he is a speck on a path along the creek. He hurriedly packs his chute and then, clearly audible above the rushing water, lets out a war whoop that rises past those mortals still perched on the dam, past the commuters puttering by on the roadway, past even the hawks who circle the ravine. It is a cry of defiance...
...emboldened, he embellished his persona package, at times a bandannaed pirate, at times the Punisher, who displayed a boorish attitude along with an admirably vicious game. He won another Grand Slam event, the 1995 Australian Open, and was cruising along as a bad-boy Numero Uno until he was again knocked into Kingdom Comeback by Sampras, who had more tools than a Swiss Army knife. Sampras administered a straight-set thrashing in the U.S. Open finals that cracked Agassi's karma, causing him to question whether tennis...
...develop inside the abdomen and descend into the scrotal sac before birth. In some cases, though, one (and sometimes both) of the testicles stays inside the body. The laggard normally drops into place in the child's first year of life, though surgery is sometimes needed to help it along...
...suppose some of the sting is taken out of it if your own kid is the one who has suddenly become unspeakably wealthy. Even then, there must be something disorienting about having to answer, when an old friend asks how little Ethan is getting along in his first job, "Well, he doesn't tell us much--you know how boys that age are--but the last issue of Forbes said he's worth $2 billion...
...enough money to accumulate the same superfluous material objects that everyone else had. Now that those boomers are feeling an occasional twinge in the lower back as they take that big step up into the driver's seat of the sport-utility vehicles they worked so hard to acquire, along comes another generation known not for wanting to be rich but for having suddenly become rich--seemingly without working very hard, or at least very long. That has to sting...