Word: icing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life. In only 12 games, he had chalked up six goals and six assists. Drafted by the National Hockey League's Hartford Whalers in the ninth round of the 1996 draft, Adams had gained the reputation of being a tough, hard-nosed player who never gave up on the ice...
Adams' return to the ice may be the catalyst to a successful season for the Crimson. Its improvement towards the end of last season--in which it won its final two road games for the first time in two years--signals hope for this year...
Capuano rejoined, "He's ice cream...
...problem lies in the fact that adulthood requires making conscious decisions. Those of us who were thrown out on the ice at age two-those who, as the saying goes, were asked to jump and answered "How high?"-run a tremendous risk of finding ourselves, 20 years later, too old to be impressive and lacking the more important skill of being able to make our own decisions. Perhaps this explains the anxieties of so many seniors who, four years ago entered Harvard as the nation's most promising young adults and who now find themselves facing graduation while helplessly searching...
Figure-skating, like other sports, is said to build poise and grace, but it is also said to build confidence. When Kelly O'Grady stops being a seven-year-old figure-skating phenomenon, let's hope she takes the confidence she learned on the ice to pursue her own dreams, and to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her long, long life...