Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race did give the Crimson an insight into what it needs to iron out in what remains of it preseason. Already the team has begun putting more emphasis on running hills in practice...
...ventilation grates of Holyoke Center, where many homeless people have spent cold winter nights, are now covered by a large iron cage...
Just one more game. Therein lies the true beauty of the Streak. Ripken never set out to eclipse the "Iron Horse," who he modestly and somewhat mistakenly believes was a much better ballplayer than himself. "I'm not even in Gehrig's league," says Ripken. Offensively speaking, Ripken may be right, although he has had two mvp, Gehrigian seasons (1983 and 1991). But defensively Ripken plays a much tougher position than Gehrig did, and he does a much better job of it at that. As durable as Lou was, he played every inning of every game for only one season...
...mother of one, jumped from a bridge to her death following an angry altercation that occurred when her car hit another vehicle. Early accounts said Martell Welch, the driver of the other car, stripped Word naked on the Douglas MacArthur Bridge, smashed her car window with a tire iron and then forced her to jump while dozens of people stood by cheering. Prosecutors now call these reports exaggerated, saying Word was not stripped or beaten and there were no cheering crowds. Nevertheless, Welch was charged with second-degree murder as city officials scrambled to repair De troit's tarnished image...
...valuable metals up from the planet's interior and concentrating them in convenient locations. Oceanographers have long known that parts of the Pacific sea floor at depths between 14,000 ft. and 17,000 ft. are carpeted with so-called manganese nodules, potato-size chunks of manganese mixed with iron, nickel, cobalt and other useful metals. In the 1970s, Howard Hughes used the search for nodules as a cover for building the ship Glomar Explorer, which was used to salvage a sunken Soviet sub. Now several mining companies are drawing up plans to do with more up-to-date equipment...