Word: catching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics is tangible; a generation of young voters is convinced ? perhaps rightly ? that they needn't worry about elections until they're rich enough to buy a politician of their own. Campaign-finance reform is being championed by both John McCain and Bill Bradley, and is actually starting to catch on as an issue, yet each finds the movement opposed to varying degrees by their major-party compatriots. The party in power never wants reform, and the party in the minority only pushes for it because they know it will never pass...
Morris outstretched his arms for the 49-yard catch and a first down that allowed the Crimson to run another minute off the clock. He also began to show that Wilford would have other targets this year besides Patterson...
...only the opening chapter of a story that has become one of the most bizarre and surreal in the annals of publishing. Muggles, i.e., those who are unaware of all the wizardry afoot in the world around them, will need a brief recap if they're ever to catch...
...widely reviled postapocalyptic romance, is a decent movie, acutely alert to the perils and pleasures of mythmaking. Maybe audiences will forgive Costner for making that noble flop and welcome him back to the baseball-weepie lode he mined in the sappy, canny Field of Dreams. (He even plays catch with his dead dad again.) Or perhaps, like this dogged Costner fan, you will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning...
...universities across the nation free of charge, this most compelling incentive to attend class has become obsolete. In a recent New York Times article the Web site's creator, Oran Wolf, explained that he launched StudentU.com with the intention of helping student improve their notes or to help them catch up to the speed of the class should they have fallen ill and missed a lecture...