Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last home game of the season, Roby started the three seniors on the team--Tri-Captains Bill Mohler and Kyle Dodson, and guard Tom Morrison. Mohler was the focus of attention, as the Crimson tried to work the ball inside early...
White remained active in other sports, but her main focus was on hockey-several times a week. She played for the girls' team in her school, Kingswood-Oxford, and on weekends she played on the West Hartford community boys' league. And sometimes she played on West Hartford's traveling team...
...poets included the locally known and respected Vincent Ferrini, Jeannette Maes and R.U. Outavit. But it was Andy Kane, a homeless man living in Boston, who took the spotlight, said Maes. She said Kane's work gave a special focus to the day's events because he "brought together the experiences of the poets and the homeless...
...came early, and guilt tagged along. Kids grew up faster, tougher, with fewer fantasies and more urgent everyday nightmares. In wartime or in uneasy peace, childhood was no romp in the meadows of innocence; the evidence is on the screen. Two top contenders for this week's Oscar nominations focus on English boys growing up during World War II. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied into maturity at the cost of his old principles; in John Boorman's Hope and Glory, a boy finds German fire bombs virtually on his front porch. Neither child...
...nutritionists interviewing nonagenarians to physicians specializing | in treating the elderly. The goal of gerontology is not to extend the upper limit of human life -- now about 115 to 120 years of age -- but to make the lives of the elderly less burdensome physically and more rewarding emotionally. "The new focus," says Dr. John Rowe, director of the division on aging at Harvard Medical School, "is not on life-span but on health- span...