Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adding to the flame, Brown was the team which ended Harvard's season last year as well as its hopes for the Eastern title in a 9-8 grueling overtime loss at Blodgett Pool. Put that together with the fact that Harvard's season has already been branded a "rebuilding year" and tonight's game means that much more...
...saying the Games are as full of terror and chaos as the lives they temporarily eclipse. On a less exalted level, in Atlanta's official fairy tale of the Games, the first of the five Olympian qualities that a hero must master (in the realm where the Olympian flame always burns bright) is perseverance...
...author knows this killing ground well, but too often his writing is fast and sloppy. A burning department store is "engulfed in its death throes," and streets are "rivers of flame." Rosso, at a difficult moment, thinks "the buck stops here." No, the reader reflects, it was Harry Truman who thought that. Rosso needs a dialogue coach, and his author, alas for what otherwise is an effective novel, needs treatment for tin-ear disease...
...attack. If in fact TWA Flight 800 fell under its own weight because of metal fatigue or faulty engineering, then my father has it right: you'd be crazy ever to fly again. But this seems unlikely. 747s don't just plummet into the sea in a ball of flame because of technical flaws. Aviation is not a perfect science, but almost all crashes are attributable to some problem not intrinsic to the airplane...
...first Olympian defection, at the 1948 Games in London, when Marie Provaznikova, leader of the Czech women's contingent, simply refused to return to Czechoslovakia. The drama will be in the number of Cubans or the names. Is it possible that Felix Savon, the great heavyweight boxer, or a flame-throwing pitcher named Omar Luis or even Linares might bolt before receiving his gold medal? "Anything is possible," says El Gordo. "Something will happen...