Word: fin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special teams, especially penalty killing." Evans, described by Benson as a wing who "always comes out of the corner with the puck," was a first team All-Star pick in the Ontario Hockey Association last year, and a number one draft pick of the Major Junior "A" Hamilton Fin-Cups. He declined the offer in order to play college hockey...
...offered enough objective evidence about Backhouse's career (he paraphrases the hermit much more often than he actually quotes him), the reader cannot fully believe the author. Thus Trevor-Roper's attempt to explain Backhouse's turn toward Germany in the '40's as an illustration of fin desiecle elitism of the British upper class converting into fascism, is simply a poor fit. It is like trying to find a practical use for a lovely collection of China vases. Perhaps it is because he realizes this, that Trevor-Roper submerges himself once more in his artful construct of the mystery...
...Laurent himself once institutionalized, and his revolutionary peasant look of last year was transmuted into costumes more sumptuous, more fantastical, more opulent -and more expensive (typically $3,000 to $10,000 per outfit)-than ever before. Romanticism-from Saint Laurent's Oriental visions to Marc Bohan's fin desiecle flirtations-is alive and well and living in Paris...
...frontrunners were once again deadlocked when a charging Watson gamely carded birdies on the fifth, seventh, and eighth, respectively named Fin'me oot, Roon the Ben, and Goat Fell...
...struts and belts her way to the fin ish, with crowds cheering and the cam era gazing on adoringly, one may not be able to help thinking: If only she had said no one more time back there...