Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Green travels to Cornell, and Teevens hopes Dartmouth's juggling acts and interceptions cease. He hopes to break his team's string of broken plays...
...league's contract with the television networks and ESPN guarantees that each team will break even. The first fan through the turnstile represents profit for these teams, and most of the franchises virtually fill their stadiums on season ticket sales alones. Each team plays only eight home games per year--one-tenth as many as baseball franchises--and sports diehards hungry for outdoor action between the end of the World Series and the beginning of spring training have little alternative...
...sense, the only thing against Luce was her ability to play many roles and break all the rules, as a woman conquering what was primarily a man's world. As one of the first great career women in American history, Luce found herself alternately patronized by those who saw her only as a woman and anathematized by those who saw only her career. For some, she was too elegant to be intelligent, for others too sharp-witted to be ladylike. An early feminist whose most famous play showed women at their cattiest, a formidable grande dame of high society...
...down into the cavernous pit that residents once knew as the Quad Courtyard. And as she fell, arms flailing madly by her sides, I couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow--after all, it would be many weeks before the construction men would return from their coffee break and find...
Right in front of my eyes was a huge glob of illegally dumped waste. The foamy brown scum floated slowly into shore. As it enveloped the shore break, the water would streak brown in the air, crash down in a spray of yellowish-white, and then disappear into the sand. Wave after wave of scum vanished in this fashion, while little children splashed in the waves. New Jerseyites were literally swimming in their own feces...