Word: bende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eager developers, Big Bend conjured up visions of condos and tennis courts: 64,000 acres of wetlands stretching along 60 miles of the Gulf Coast of Florida. Hardwood hammocks, saw grass, palms, brackish scrub. Teeming with many exotic -- as well as threatened and endangered -- species such as alligators, manatees, green turtles and bald eagles. Probably the largest plot of undeveloped private property left in the East...
...Bend's owner, Buckeye Cellulose, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, was asking a steep price. But the coveted land did not end up in the hands of a wealthy developer. It was bought instead by an environmental group, the Nature Conservancy, which in December paid $20 million for the property...
...Harvard hockey team were beginning their quest for the Ivy League, the ECAC and the NCAA championships with an aerobics class. Many of the players were thinking how much easier it is to punch a puck into a net from 40 feet out than to do a deep knee bend...
...appropriate one is fraught with peril. Alabama, for instance, may be proud of the Crimson Tide, but it sounds like a bloodbath or a serious algae problem. Notre Dame's famous jocks are ossified as the Fighting Irish, though Hibernian-American athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget...
...North Pole flight pad, Christmas 'round the bend...