Word: gales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cases, undaunted. In Vermont the distinguished essayist Edward Hoagland was abruptly dismissed as a part-time lecturer at Bennington College. The reason? Student activists convinced school authorities that an article Hoagland had written for Esquire, in which he argued that the spread of AIDS was owing partly to a "gale of often icy promiscuity," was homophobic and therefore deserved severe punishment. To be sure, Hoagland got his teaching job at Bennington back after an investigation showed that the college's literature department had "deviated from proper recruitment procedures" in giving him the boot. Nonetheless, there is a chilling effect. "Essayists...
McLoughlin floated a throw-in in front of the Crimson goal area. A flurry ensued. With 20:41 left in the first half, UNH's Amy Gale slapped a loose ball that skimmed off freshman goalie Brook Donahoe's outstretched fingers for the go-ahead score...
...ironies, of course, begin to multiply as soon as a life comes unraveled: in retrospect, everything seems an augury. One night before, the local TV station had announced that the conditions -- 106 degrees heat, gale-force winds and drought-stricken hills -- were the best for a fire in 100 years. That day, at lunch, I had been talking with a friend whose mother had just died, about the pathos of going through old belongings. And when, at the optician's office that evening, my doctor stepped out to go and sniff at what he thought might be a fire...
...survived with so many things going so wrong. Those questions, however, were far from his thinking. He was the man at the eye of the storm, supremely confident that he will still be working his will and wit on the world when the thunder and gale- force winds are spent...
...Christopher Lloyd) have encountered -- and caused -- on their voyages, the Back to the Future movies have moved along the time-space continuum with easy, free- striding confidence. Maybe Marty and Doc (and the rest of us, looking on) have suffered momentary disorientations. But director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale have always known where they were and, better still, where they were heading...