Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ever use an ID card to spread peanut butter? Wamback reports that he has "seen cards chewed up by dogs, run through a dish washer, burned, dropped in a paper shredder. Holes have been punched through the magnetic strip. Some have been broken when used to scrape ice from windshields. (Cards are more brittle at lower temperatures)." So don't confuse your card with a Swiss Army knife or you might find yourself out in the cold...
Senior and three-year starter J.R. Prestifilippo (24 games played, 10-13-1, 3.56 GAA, .882 sv%) suffered a broken collarbone before the series and Jonas (12 GP, 4-3-1, 3.22 GAA) did his best impression of Dominik Hasek, leading his team to victory in Game One and nearly stole the rubber match before the ECAC's best offense got rolling in the third period...
Between the pipes, Harvard will rely on the services of senior Crystal Springer. Springer finished third in the ECAC with a 1.61 goals-against average and a .924 save percentage, but she missed 10 games during the regular season due to a broken collarbone, which she re-aggravated in the national semifinal against Brown. Springer is one of the top goaltenders in the country, but first she must recover from last season's injuries...
...being pumped into the presidential campaigns is stifling the primary system. The whole point of primaries is to put the nomination in the hands of the voters, not the party establishment. When candidates' ability to milk party donors weeds out candidates instead of popular opinion, the system is broken...
...Alps men can be men, because they won't make it there if they're anything less. As befits a man of his timbre, Christoph boasted a heady admiration for America's paragon of manliness, the Old West cowboy. We were chatting about Westerns and cowboys one day in broken English--my German goes no further than "bier" and "bratwurst"--when he told me of his son's "cowboy coloring book." I was encouraged, to say the least, that America had given this exemplar of the strenuous life an untainted character worthy of his children's admiration (I never...