Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important for those shots to fall as well.Harvard's players and coaches can plan as much asthey want, to play help defense, to crash theboards, to make crisp passes and find openplayers, to exploit the inexperience of Stanford'sthird-stringers and to out-hustle its tiredsecond-stringers...
...taken more than three years to plumb that bottom. Long after the 1929 stock-market crash filled Wall Street with eerily silent crowds gaping in stunned apprehension, President Herbert Hoover was still clinging to the deeply held--and widely shared--belief that good old rugged individualism, with just a dash of government help (nothing so radical as a federal dole), would dispel the gathering Depression. But the economy only spiraled lower. By 1933 unemployment had hit 25%; people were foraging in garbage dumps for food; outside almost every large city, shantytowns, known as "Hoovervilles," drew the newly homeless...
...ever, but it certainly seems that way. Did Clarence Birdseye become the richest man in the world? Appear four times on TIME's cover? Did he become, as Bill Gates has, a cultural icon, right up there with the beautiful princess who died with her lover in a car crash in Paris...
...irsute, shoeless hippies huddled in doorways, smoking pot, 'rapping' (achieving rapport with random talk), or banging beer cans in time to ubiquitous jukebox rhythms. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals just off the bus and looking for a place to 'crash' (sleep). They scorn money--they call it 'bread.' They feel 'uptight' (tense and frightened) about many disparate things--from sex to the draft, college grades to thermonuclear war." --July 7, 1967, from a cover story on San Francisco's hippies
...Would the nightmare, to many tragically cruel, never end? As shades of Tuesday evening fell, it seemed again that the worst was past. Hysteria, it was hoped, had met its master in the Banking Power of the U.S." --Nov. 4, 1929, from coverage of the October stock-market crash...