Word: field
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shooting 7-for-13 from the field and scoring a career-high 16 points with eight rebounds, Coleman gave Harvard a chance to down Navy late, stealing the ball with 38 seconds remaining in regulation and the Crimson trailing...
Although he shot 2-of-2 from the field and scored five points in only 10 minutes of play, Mayshak's inexperience revealed that it will take time for him to adjust to the college game...
...performed adequately in delivering his first major foreign-policy speech, and two days later he had emerged virtually unscathed from a one-hour grilling on NBC's Meet the Press. After being knocked for weeks as a lightweight who didn't understand foreign policy and could not field tough questions, he had handled the speech and the televised interview well enough to quiet some of his critics. Now the next hurdle, a debate this week in New Hampshire, seemed less daunting. "I'm feeling comfortable," Bush told his team as he sipped coffee. "I'm ready...
...learn that Pythagoras, the father of mathematical proof, was a vegetarian who would not eat beans because they reminded him of gonads. Legend has it that when his mathematical enemies set his house ablaze and chased the fire-fleeing Pythagoras to the edge of a bean field, the great mathematician declared that he would rather die than mingle with the beans. His pursuers happily slit his throat...
...real key to Lara's success, says Smith, is that she's the first female protagonist in a field filled with muscle-rippled, machine gun-toting macho caricatures like Duke Nukem or the Terminator. Cartoonish features aside, Lara is intelligent, agile and handy with a pistol or two. "She's strong willed and independent," Smith says. He pauses, then adds, "like the Spice Girls...