Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Locker and his gang have not had the same kind of start as last year. They haven't turned any heads around the league with spectacular play and last-second heroics...
...things had a way of working out for Locker and his gang last September. With just 36 ticks left on the clock, junior Derek Swaim took a pass from captain Jason Luzak '93 and headed it into the back of the net. Goal for Swaim, victory for Harvard...
...particularly struck by one of General Sharon's statements. "Who could have imagined, even one year ago," he wailed, red-faced with indignation, "that Israel would deal with the PLO?" Change the intonation, subtract the angry epithets ("a gang of terrorists") that Sharon attached at the end of the phrase, and it's exactly the message we're hearing from architects and supporters of the Gaza-Jericho plan...
...Braves evaporate completely. The Chicago White Sox seemed headed for a division crown in the American League West, but the trailing Texas Rangers still dreamed that Nolan Ryan's farewell tour would climax in the World Series. Only the Philadelphia Phillies -- the 1990s' answer to the bawdy, brawling Gashouse Gang -- appeared certain of postseason play...
...their traditional sense of independence will continue to wave off essential land-use planning and allow Denver, say, to become "the Los Angeles of tomorrow." Others point out that some of that nefarious future has arrived. Denver this summer has been gripped by anxiety over a sudden surge of gang violence. In only one week at the end of July, three people were killed and two wounded in drive-by shootings. A housewife in the Capitol Hill district was fatally shot while washing the supper dishes in her kitchen...