Word: butte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summertime rapture of baseball, golf and tennis, but most of them find soccer -- which the rest of the world perversely calls football -- a frustrating, often impenetrable game. What kind of sport is it, after all, where players can't use their hands, pass the ball with their feet, butt it with their heads, only rarely score goals and touch off stadium riots when they...
...controversial technique of using actors to re-create real-life news events. Early in the play, Richard hires two thugs to murder his brother, the Duke of Clarence. In the scene as written, the murderers declare their intention to stab Clarence and then "throw him in the malmsey-butt in the next room," malmsey being a local beverage...
This year, however, hasn't been as bad for the University as some people suppose. Harvard's math team, chess team, bridge team and on-topic debate team placed first in the country against formidable opposition. Put bluntly, we kicked some intellectual butt...
...rarely swim fly. I swim freestyle. Butterfly is the most difficult stroke. After swimming a minute of butterfly, you're on your butt. So guys who work out more than I do in butterfly have the greatest lousy stroke in the world, because your arms get tired, and you drop your elbows, and your technique is off. The technical stroke in butterfly is critical to the speed of the stroke...
...chairman (and butt of the film Roger & Me) got some respect: a proposal, pending shareholder approval, to nearly double his annual pension to $1.2 million after retirement...