Word: fer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy circumstance of the two presidents each having Oxford degrees persuaded Oxford to this rather appropriate `two-fer,'" Knowles said...
...thought on Leonardo DiCaprio's agent's mind when he or she urged DiCaprio to take the starring roles in what must be the billionth (the Internet Movie Database lists six previous versions) adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask (L'homme au masque du fer), the sequel to the even more well-known The Three Musketeers. "Leo, baby," one can almost hear the agent saying, "you need a break after Titanic. Why don't you take this film? You'll hardly have to act--it has an all-star cast--I mean, it's almost like...
...caige de fer le grand fera treisner...
...when Harvard pulls an oh-fer on the power play, conceding a short-handed goal in the process ("[The power-play] hurt us more than anything." Tomassoni said, without any prompting), well, there you go. Kudos to the Saints, deservedly pulling a season-reviving win out of the smoky rubble from the current ECAC season...
...approaches competence. Rightfielder Dante Bichette strikes out but reaches first base when the catcher drops the ball, and receives an ovation. The infield turns a creaky double play, making the putout on .057-batting pitcher Charlie Hough, and the crowd cheers as if Babe Ruth had just gone oh-fer. "All that noise they make gives me an adrenaline boost," says Bichette. "You don't want to embarrass yourself in front of 60,000 fans." First baseman Andres Galarraga, the Venezuelan whose dimpled charisma is the club's handsomest calling card, takes the crowd fervor like medicine. "You can feel...