Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted to be Harvard-centered in some way, and we also wanted to be a good time," Pinch said. "We didn't want it to compete with things like quiz bowl--didn't want it to be too serious, like academically-oriented...
...Zhirinovsky expounded his unique view of the world with all the subtlety of a firing Kalashnikov. Barely taking a breath, he railed against the country's new bankers, threatened to rain napalm down on villagers in the Caucasus region who kill Russian soldiers, and promised every hungry Russian a bowl of soup. "Russian fathers, do you know where your daughters are?" Zhirinovsky asked. "They're selling their bodies to buy clothes and cosmetics...
...this fascination with the color purple? Well, it is the dominant color of Chicagoland's favorite, mighty, Rose Bowl--bound football team, Da Wildcats. Da Northwestern Wildcats...
Prior to this season, the words mighty, Rose Bowl and Northwestern last appeared in the same sentence in 1948. "Da" was an inarticulate article reserved for Bulls, Bears and Blackhawks. The ineptitude of Northwestern football was so profound that the "Mildcats" lost 34 straight games during one extended period, and in the 24 years between '71 and '95, they averaged two victories a year. During the waning moments of losing games, the academically prideful students would chant at opposing teams, "That's all right. That's O.K. You're gonna work for us someday...
...Thinking how good it would look that evening, she poured Lysol into the bowl, sprayed and scrubbed...