Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the 2-0 victory the Crimson clinched at least a tie for the league crown...
...Margaret Reeb [AMERICAN SCENE, May 12] may have left some readers with the impression that the Clinton Administration would like to see the private owners of the land come away with nothing from a deal that would protect the park. The government is proposing to exchange assets for the Crown Butte mining company's rights and Reeb's property precisely in order to provide a fair deal for the property owners as we fulfill our responsibility to protect Yellowstone. The Administration insisted that the agreement expressly take Reeb's interests into account. Also, it is incorrect to say the Administration...
...SILVER CHARM, 3, the Preakness, by a nose over Free House. Having won the Kentucky Derby, the gray colt under jockey Gary Stevens could become the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to win the Triple Crown...
...million people visited the U.S. network of national parks, monuments, historic sites and other designated scenic places. Unfortunately, it sometimes seemed that all the nature lovers were in the same place at the same time. Everyone wants to go to Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and a few other crown jewels. But mile-long waits at the gate and fistfights in parking lots can leave visitors longing for the comparative calm of midtown Manhattan...
...make an impact in a short trailer or be miniaturized and slipped into a Happy Meal. "Heroes have to be drawn according to more conventional terms," says Hollywood Reporter columnist Martin Grove. "When you have these huge-event pictures with megabudgets, villains become the jewels in the crown." Sure, heroes like Jodie Foster in the sci-fi film Contact or Samuel L. Jackson in the drama 187 catch our eye. But when the villains start scheming, that's when summer starts...