Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many injured athletes, initial pain anddisappointment usually gives way to optimism andresolve. The road to recovery for Milbert will belong and strenuous, but its bumps are at leastfamiliar. She is already anticipating long hoursin the training room, but at the end of it allpictures herself lacing up her skates sometimeearly next year...
Problem: You start going steady with a hottie named Tom Exenberger and his parents very much want to meet you. They decide to take you and Tom out to dinner at the fancy club they belong to. Your brand-new sleek-looking black dress is coming off great and things are going smoothly until just after the appetizer, when you accidentally, and quite loudly, release some gas you've been trying to hold in for the past half hour. Yuck! Here's what to do to get out of this jam while saving face...
...unwelcome as members" part goes, I have no desire to belong to an all-male final club, just as I do not want to belong to the Dins, the Kroks or the football team. Now let's address "amusement." Women go to final clubs to have a good time. When women choose to go to final clubs, they are choosing to go someplace where they will never actually belong, but where they may be able to dance, play pool and have fun--activities a little too rare at Harvard...
...accept the fact of unpopular speech on campus is also to accept the reality of society. As Kors and Silverglate write, "What an astonishing expectation to give to students: the belief that, if they belong to a protected category, they have a right to four years of never being offended...
...YANKEES: This powerhouse, led by Ruth and Gehrig, went 110-44. It disemboweled Pittsburgh in four straight in the Series and has since been widely regarded as the best ever. But these Yankees may, in fact, not even belong in the top five. The magic of the '27 season derived in large part from uncanny luck: the team was so free of injury that six of its eight position players enjoyed more than 500 at bats. A good thing this was, for Murderers' Row obscured a hollow bench whose most productive resident, catcher Johnny Grabowski, contributed exactly one home...