Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense could not have been much better last week. The Crimson's excellent forechecking kept the puck in the offensive zone, allowing Harvard to reel off 59 shots on goal while limiting the Elis and the Tigers to a total of 25 shots. Sophomore goaltender Crystal Springer made 24 saves and let the puck through the pipes only once, earning her ECAC goalie of the week honors...
...were handling a booby-trapped assignment that could explode in their faces. Americans are always reluctant to get into foreign wars, preferring neutrality and shrinking from the shedding of blood, even the enemy's. They wanted to stay out of World War II until Pearl Harbor made the choices crystal clear. Even in 1991, with 500,000 troops poised in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Senate voted only 52 to 47 in favor of attacking Saddam to drive him out of Kuwait. Americans don't like the mission to Bosnia, and they hated the intervention in Haiti...
Would that Claudia Wallis (founding editor of TIME FOR KIDS) were the editor of TIME FOR ADULTS. It would have saved readers from wading through so many pages on Clinton's problems. ROBERT E. LINDBERG Crystal River...
Students were generally impressed with the setting. Tables were set with candles reflecting the light from the crystal chandeliers, and balloons added an extra festive touch...
...allowed some sub-prime borrowers to pay off their loans ahead of schedule. That has reduced income and ruined profit projections in many parts of the industry. Notes Daniel Phillips, chairman of FirstPlus Financial, a Dallas sub-prime lender: "No matter how conservative a lender's assumptions are, no crystal ball allows him to see what may happen...