Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. Great players often distinguish themselves at tender ages. Before he reached 14, the renowned champion Paul Morphy (1837-84) had reddened the faces of the best adults in his hometown of New Orleans. International Grand Master Samuel Reshevsky, when he was six, toured his native Poland playing two dozen opponents simultaneously and rarely losing. At 14, Bobby Fischer, the game's reclusive genius, won both the U.S. junior and senior championships. But none of these men quite prepared the chess world for the triple-threat Polgar sisters of Budapest...
...starters, Susan, 16, the eldest of the Polgars, finished just one victory away from accumulating enough points to achieve grand-master status. Tied with Sweden's Pia Cramling, 22, as the world's second-ranked female chess player (behind the Soviet Union's Maya Chiburdanidze, 25), the teenager soundly thrashed six-time U.S. Champion Walter Browne, 37, on her way to a respectable showing of 25th in the top section of the tournament. Sister Sophia, 11, meanwhile swept to second place in the expert category. Finally, the baby of the family, Judith, a pudgy, self-confident nine-year-old, astounded...
...Baylor's grand slam with two out in the eighth inning Thursday broke a 2-2 tie and gave the Boston Red Sox a 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals...
...friends say, so I stand up and put on the outward smile again, as if I had finally stoically accepted the 8-2 opening day loss that deep inside seems so insignificant in the proverbial grand scheme of things...
...studio apartment in Boston's North End was an unlikely headquarters for a multimillion-dollar business. No grand entrance, no smiling receptionist. But it was in that nondescript room that leaders of the Angiulo crime family, the city's predominant underworld dynasty, met regularly to plan the fortunes of an evil empire fed by murder, gambling and loan sharking. Often their plotting turned to what they considered a vexing subject: how to avoid the reach of a unique federal law called RICO, which not only targets Mob leaders but can also dismantle their whole illegal enterprise. "Remember that word 'enterprise...