Word: dented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, Harvard didn't play particularly good defense, it again failed to dent the net away from its power play, and for all of the good things Aaron Israel did in goal, he picked a pretty terrible time to let in his softest goal of the year...
...comes wrapped in hype, most of it directly traceable to Steven Jobs, former chairman of Apple. He loved to tell his designers that the computer they were building -- with its icons, its pull-down menus and its mouse -- would not only change the world, but also "put a dent in the universe." As if to hammer his point home to the rest of America, Jobs launched the new machine in January 1984 with the famously melodramatic commercial -- aired just once, during the Super Bowl -- in which a woman clad in a Mac T shirt smashed a screen image meant...
Someday, virtual-reality technology may enable people to put the screen icons behind them and step directly into the metaphor. In the future, says Levy, "we will cross the line between substance and cyberspace with increasing frequency, and think nothing of it." That's what Jobs would call a dent in the universe...
...might, the Crimson just couldn't dent the scoreboard; junior forward Perry Cohagen, still seeking his first goal of the year, had perhaps Harvard's best chance, but he was stone-walled by Lendzyk on a high wrister...
Clinton will, of course, be unequal to the task. The assassination left Kennedy frozen in time, immune to criticism and free of the slow decline that awaits any politician in retirement. He lives on in a heroic legend that no later stories of his personal shortcomings can dent; it is an outline that even John F. Kennedy himself, were he alive today, could not fill...