Word: beame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Senior shooting guard Mike Beam ended a game with more subplots than a drugstore romance novel with a three-pointer over Boston College guard Clayton Sims as time expired and the Harvard men's basketball team posted a shocking 62-61 victory before 1,829 at Conte Forum. HARVARD 62 BOSTON COLLEGE...
...kind of a tough shot," Beam said. "The guy was right in my face. But you can kind of tell when it leaves your fingers if it's going to be a good one or not, and it felt good...
...life by the University of Lousiana football players to whom he unwaveringly delivers "cold, clear, liquid goodness." In the opening scene, Bobby demonstrates his occupational dedication by distilling and purifying every drop of water, which he distributes to the players with a contraption reminiscent of the Ghostbusters' particle-beam backpacks. The waterboy is fired after Coach Red (Jerry Reed) decides that the players are excessively distracted by his innocent, aqueous ambition. Bobby returns home for condolence from his mother (Kathy Bates, who seems stuck between her roles in Misery and Titanic). At this point, the endless volley of "bayou" jokes...
...city like Boston amounts to one of the largest and most difficult infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the country. Though facts and figures may be fascinating to the future engineers and city planners among us, not everyone wants to know the force exerted by each 24-ton steel beam in the hole at South Station. The really interesting facts surface at the site; they come from people wearing hard hats who spend hours at a time 140 feet underground. And for the guy (or girl) who still hasn't given up a childhood passion for cranes and big drills...
Something else changed after that night. Whereas Cassius Clay's jests had all been geared strictly to boxing, Muhammad Ali's tongue became valuable advertising space, and it began to beam Black Muslim messages that jarred strangely against the fight hype and made Ali some real enemies, as opposed to the make-believe ones of sport...