Word: bouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Numerous players were either sick or injured during the preseason, and the team never fully healed. From walking pneumonia to broken fingers to a season-long bout with whooping cough, Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith's team couldn't stay healthy, and that proved to be Harvard's downfall...
...Jodie Foster moment. In the movie Contact, you may remember, Foster plays a frustrated SETI scientist who stumbles across an alien radio signal. That's how I see it happening to me: I'll be slumped over my desk in the Time & Life Building, struggling with another bout of writer's block, when all that random noise will suddenly transform itself into a smooth undulating wave...
Autocrats seldom go quietly, and Boris Yeltsin is no exception. With his term of office scheduled to end next year, the Russian president has deliberately plunged his country into a new bout of political and economic turmoil, driven by a single objective. "Yeltsin's only concern is, and always has been, his own power," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "He's prepared to hold onto power even if that means bringing catastrophe upon his country...
...Republicans to oppose President Clinton with even more partisan hatred. Perhaps if the "Report" had been published during the impeachment trial, it would have been more effective at illustrating the hypocrisy of certain Congressmen. But now that the trial is over and the verdict is in, our nation's bout with Sexual McCarthyism has come to a close and should stay that way. Far too much effort has been devoted to cigars, blue dresses and defining the word "is" Finally more grave issues such as NATO's attacks on Serbia and our three prisoners of war have dominated headlines, news...
When I had tea with Lewis, I asked him why I've seen white fans boo black boxers for not throwing enough punches. He insisted that the crowds aren't racist, just full of bloodlust. He's right. I had hoped that after the Golota bout, civilized people like me would realize this and abandon boxing for nobler pursuits. Like watching catfighting lesbians on Jerry Springer for free...