Word: beate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ferris wheel at the Luna Park fun fair, while their parents chat and stroll. At 10 a.m., boats blaring disco music ply the filthy Tigris River; for a few hours, Iraq's youth can try to forget their current misery and fearful future as they rock to the beat...
Perhaps the most rousing moment came when the U.S. women's hockey team beat four-time world champion Canada, 3-1, to take an emotional gold. The two games between the fierce enemies introduced fans to a style of fluency and electrifying intensity that put many an NHL game to shame, as well as to such new words as "underwomanned." Though body checking is not allowed in women's hockey, it would have been hard to tell that to any of the bodies flying across the ice, while Maple Leafs clashed with Stars and Stripes all around the packed arena...
...have an intense dislike and an intense rivalry," said Canadian coach Shannon Miller after seeing 20 penalties in a preliminary game, on Valentine's Day, that officially meant nothing. But when the American women beat her team for the second time in three days, Miller looked up and "had a feeling of joy going through my body. Because what I realized was an Olympic gold medal was being hung around the neck of a female hockey player...
...Heat made 10-of-17 shots from three-point range and beat the Mavs for the 12th straight time...
...years ago, after battling a barrage of injuries which left fewer than 10 players healthy, the Crimson went on a nine-game losing streak to end the regular season. Everyone expected them to fall in the quarterfinals, but that year the Crimson beat the odds, and only in the ECAC championship game were they finally ousted...