Word: heel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the Crimson is powerful on offense, opponents may find an Achilles heel in the backfield. The graduation of three defensive starters has left behind an untested Crimson defense...
Before an audience of 40, Ko said that to bind a child's foot a mother would break the toes of her six-year old daughter, bend them forward and bind them beneath the heel with a long piece of cloth...
...most depressing aspect of the Crimson's four-game losing streak has been the return of the poor quality of play which dogged the team earlier in the season. Turnovers, the Crimson's Achilles heel, have returned with a vengeance. Harvard lost the ball 47 times this weekend. It's left Harvard kind of shell-shocked...
...abortion issue proved to be his political Achilles heel during his governorship. The fight that ensued between him and the legislative body was controversial and widely publicized...
BILL SEIDMAN has just topped his own private joke. Shortly before he was confirmed in 1985 as chairman of the FDIC, Seidman got an Irish wolfhound, which he named Proxmire after the Senator who opposed his confirmation. "Heel, Proxmire," Seidman would bark. But not long ago, as Seidman prepared to step down from his post, William Proxmire wrote a flattering valedictory to the chairman. So Seidman renamed his dog Annunzio in dubious honor of Frank Annunzio, chairman of a House Banking subcommittee, who has sparred with Seidman over the S&L bailout. Seidman tells colleagues that when he calls "Annunzio...