Word: goals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard saw its first-half lead, 3-0, whittled away by Army, but thanks to tremendous goaltending by senior Greg Beber, was tied 6-6 with one minute remaining. Thirty seconds later, Bentley set up in the hole and fired a back-hand flip into goal for the apparent game-winner...
However, following a timeout, the Cadets notched the tying goal with just 10 seconds remaining in the game. The national spotlight would have to wait for another six minutes of overtime...
...found any way to improve on that statement of TIME's basic mission. what changes, as the world changes, is how TIME best fulfills the ambitions of its founders. thus for 65 years the magazine has evolved, both in its appearance and in its content, always with the same goal: to better serve the needs of busy, curious, intelligent readers...
...conference had started well enough for Kinnock. He easily defeated a left-wing attempt to replace him and won endorsement of a key policy document for reforming the party and making it electable again -- mainly by forsaking the goal of wholesale nationalizations. Then he delivered a confident, well- applauded speech in which he called on Labor to come to terms with the "fact of the market economy." He sought to seize the initiative from Margaret Thatcher's Tory government with his emphasis on environmental issues, individualism and competitiveness. When Kinnock insisted that no "slide to the right" was involved, leftwing...
...idea that the goal of creative effort lay outside the field of allegory and moral precept was quite new in the 1860s, when Degas was coming to maturity as a painter. The highest art was still history painting, in which France had reigned supreme; but since 1855 practically the whole generation of history painters on whom this elevation depended -- above all, Delacroix and Ingres -- had died, and no one seemed fit to replace them. French critics and artists alike, and conservative ones in particular, felt a tremor of crisis, & as others would a century later as the masters of modernism...