Word: ens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EN ESPANOL...
...Righthander Ben Crockett, who blitzed his way into the starting rotation with high-80s cheese and also developed a curve and a sidearm fastball en route to a 5-1 record with a 4.88 ERA. Crockett shared Ivy Rookie of the Year honors with Princeton's two-sport standout Chris Young, likely to represent Crockett's nemesis for the next three years...
...year-old was chosen to lead the Sayeret Matkal, and began a string of daredevil heroics. The next year, he and Netanyahu were among the special forces who donned maintenance workers' white overalls to storm a Sabena airplane hijacked en route to Tel Aviv airport. Long fascinated by mechanical devices, Barak skillfully picked a lock to open the airplane door. In 1973 he dressed as a woman to infiltrate Beirut with a unit that assassinated three leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was a commander of Israel's famous 1976 operation to rescue hostages at Uganda's Entebbe airport...
...En route to Christy's for late-night nourishment, I pass the Phoenix, the Spee and the Fox. As I stride to class in Harvard Yard, the spare change lady beseeches me from the doorway of the Porcellian...
...other times, Mora becomes too engrossed in writing in a folk tradition and falls into the trap of sentimentality and kitsch. "Corn and trees glow in the sunset, grace manifest May our work enrich the earth. Hear our request/This night and at our death, en paz may we rest," she writes in "Saint Isidore the Farmer." Such passages lose the transcendent quality that should mark them as religious poetry. They are too focused on this earth. More often than not, though, Mora manages to find the right balance between religion and reality, between the glory of the next life...