Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After registering a blank in the steal column in its first outing, Harvard increased its steal total in each succeeding game. In the team's final contest, hole player Lynley Ogilvie alone recorded five steals...
...right about the girl's underdeveloped intellect, but he does not recognize her ability to learn, as her cousin Sasha will later write her in a letter, "through your skin." Hillela is a blank slate: "For me," she says, "everything happens for the first time." She does not, for instance, think that her people, the whites, are necessarily better than the blacks. Since she is free of such preconceptions, she can travel easily and lightly through Africa, a place where old rules are crumbling or no longer apply...
...beginning, America was a blank page, in Tocqueville's phrase: no history, all potential. Today America, the oldest continuous political system in the world, has a full page of history and heavy debts to pay. The campaign of 1988 could be one of the more interesting and important in recent history. There is no incumbent; neither party has an obvious heir apparent. The nation will perform the very American act of reimagining itself...
...Japan he is a role model to thousands of young performers. Yet his exalted position is resented by many; to them, he is still the nail that sticks out. In the West, old questions about how deeply he understands music continue to dog him. His detractors write of his "blank interpretations," and indeed Ozawa has always been more effective in Strauss and Stravinsky showpieces than in Beethoven symphonies. Music that demands depth rather than flash taxes him. He has taken up opera in Europe, but his strengths and weaknesses remain the same: his Elektra in Paris was the work...
...League East pitcher like Boston's Luis Tiant. Suddenly he has no interest in Detroit's Jack Morris, the decade's winningest pitcher. Montreal Outfielder Tim Raines, the National League batting champion (.334), must wonder whether he has bad breath. So frustrated was Teammate Andre Dawson, he signed a blank contract with the Cubs and is now working for $350,000 less than the Expos offered. World Series Hero Ray Knight cut a similarly shrewd deal while transferring from the champion Mets to the last-place Orioles...