Word: blows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hofstra, powered by sophomore midfielder Brian Langtree (four goals), just would not call it quits. Both teams traded punches, but it was Harvard who landed the knockout blow when Pat Marvin fittingly scored the last goal of the game...
...thank you, for the magic charms and potions and amulets that so bedazzled our dim ancestors. We clasp at this faith and manage to hold on in spite of the myriad irrationalities of daily life. But every so often some public event gives our congratulatory self-image a sharp blow to the chops...
...Endowment for the Arts, natch). Actually, he was at least as American as his critics--a compulsive Puritan who realized that the City on a Hill had been built in a mud-slide area. The very thought of this moved him to gusts of bitter laughter, and these still blow from his work. Did he exaggerate? Of course; that's what large-hearted moralists do. There are some truths that speak only from the well of exaggeration...
...front of their houses. The unraked-leaves strike force emerged this month after a winter of discontent, when the city with one of the nation's highest tax rates ran out of money and stopped providing some basic services. The streets are almost never clean (grit and cigarette butts blow up from littered gutters on K Street), only 40 of the 104 garbage trucks function, and during the winter's snowstorms some city buses made up their routes according to which streets were passable. (Only 1 in 3 plows worked.) Now that it's spring, there are so many deep...
...even claim a recent string of successes--in Haiti, Bosnia, Ireland, the Middle East--as a big reason voters should give him another four years in the White House. But he is not past the danger that some foreign hot spots, like Korea and Russia, might blow up disastrously before the November vote. Nor is he yet safe from Republican criticism that he has too often followed a wishy-washy line. What better way, then, to spend a spring week than by doing his best to defuse both threats...