Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers in the hope of enhancing their aggressiveness in battle. After World War II, Soviet sports officials reportedly noted the Nazis' use, and in the 1950s began giving steroids to athletes. U.S. doctors found out about this and introduced them to American athletes, initiating a kind of chemical cold...
Last night, the Harvard field hockey team ventured out into the cold of Western Massachusetts to play an offensively-charged Spring-field team, and lost...
...audacious genetic adventure. This week the National Institutes of Health announced that the Nobelist will lead the agency in one of the most mammoth scientific endeavors ever: mapping and analyzing all the genetic material -- the genome -- contained in human cells. Marvels Watson, who will continue as director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York: "Thirty years ago my dream was we'd know the structure of a virus. The fact that we've progressed so far that we might know the precise structure of a human being seems to me to be wonderful...
...Bank is one of thousands of firms that have grasped a basic fact of business in the era of the two-career household: when companies hire employees, families and all of their homelife headaches are taken on as well. If little Suzy goes off to day care with a cold, Dad may fret about it at the office all day. If Mom suddenly has to work late, there may be no one to pick up Suzy and give her dinner. And if Grandma falls and breaks her hip, that budget report due tomorrow just doesn't seem so important anymore...
...teammate Banks arrived on schedule, completely pleased with himself. "To keep me from the gold," he proclaimed in the fighters' doggerel, "they'll have to knock me cold." They did, in the first round. Even so, finding a softer voice while glancing at Hembrick, Banks said, "I'd rather be carried out of the ring than never to have gone into it." When the Korean Byun lost to a Bulgarian by bitter decision, Byun wouldn't leave. All the black bow-tied referees in white had to pile through the ropes to rescue their brother from local officials and fans...