Word: knighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Clarkson defenseman Chris Bahen’s clearing attempt was intercepted in the Golden Knights’ zone. Cavanagh collected the loose puck at the blue line and used a pick from Bernakevitch to gain some open ice. The rookie forward then skated in—eluding a Golden Knight skater hanging off his hip—and fired a backhand shot from six feet in front that eluded Clarkson goaltender Mike Walsh low to the stick side...
...study of the running ability of Tyrannosaurus Rex, reported last week in the journal Nature, suggests that the king of the prehistoric jungle wasn't quite the speedster we once thought. Researchers found that T. rex (as imagined in an early 20th century painting, left, by Charles Knight) was too massive to sprint like the giant-size cheetah it appears to be in movies. This is just the latest in a series of humbling revisions made over the past decade or so, as new fossils were unearthed and old ones re-examined. But one thing hasn't changed: this...
...finalists—journalists from the Knight-Ridder news service, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Orlando Sentinel and the Seattle Times—are up for the $25,000 prize, which is awarded for the year’s best investigative reporting that encourages ethics in government, politics and public policy...
...that occurs in the last few minutes of the movie. Most of the story takes place aboard a bus making its slow way up from Miami toward New York City, with Gable acting as Colbert's chaste protector--honorable knight disguised as roadwise cynic--as she tries to elude her father's detectives. The bus is the real Frank Capra America, a gallant little vessel pushing through sparsely settled American countryside, the passengers, ensemble, singing The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, checking into roadside motor cabins when a bridge washes out and waiting in line next morning...
...that occurs in the last few minutes of the movie. Most of the story takes place aboard a bus making its slow way up from Miami toward New York City, with Gable acting as Colbert's chaste protector--honorable knight disguised as roadwise cynic--as she tries to elude her father's detectives. The bus is the real Frank Capra America, a gallant little vessel pushing through sparsely settled American countryside, the passengers, ensemble, singing The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, checking into roadside motor cabins when a bridge washes out and waiting in line next morning...