Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like most National Football League players, New York Jets receiver Rob Moore is accustomed to getting hit hard and jumping right back into the fray. But Thanksgiving weekend, as his team faced the Miami Dolphins, the 6-ft. 3-in., 205-lb. Moore caught a pass and got clocked so badly that he couldn't get up -- at least not for three minutes. When coaches and trainers finally hauled him to his feet, he was so dizzy and disoriented that a team doctor forced him to spend the rest of the game on the bench. Hours later Moore was still...
...summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah -- fair is for wimps. But she is always entertaining, offering vigorous ideas for the open mind to entertain...
...this newest attempt to confound democracy, another branch of government has entered the fray. The state referendum repealing rent control won't be able to take effect until the courts decide whether the conduct of the vote was constitutional, a Suffolk Country appellate judge ruled last Friday...
Radio stations have also joined the fray. Local classic rock station WZLX 100.7 FM maintains a Web site with URL http://www.wzix.com/wzix. Features include "WZLX Promotions," "Upcoming Classic CD Releases," and the "Rock and Roll Diary...
Today, this battle has an additional front, since the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) joined the fray. Members of the FAS, who assumed they would be able to vote on the changes and sat quietly by during the review process, are now concerned about decreases in future income. They say that they, too, were excluded from the process...