Word: lane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, in the dark early hours of June 4, the government struck back, sending tanks from all directions toward Tiananmen Square and killing hundreds of workers and students and doctors and children, many later found shot in the back. In the unnatural quiet after the massacre, with the six-lane streets eerily empty and a burned-out bus along the road, it fell to the tank man to serve as the last great defender of the peace, an Unknown Soldier in the struggle for human rights...
...More on-screen Cinderellas abide -- and stall -- in Hoop Dreams (1994), a gritty, often wrenching documentary about climbing the athletic ladder in Chicago that got screwed out of an Oscar in 1994 (but what else is new). Teen dream Leo DiCaprio, back when he could act, drives the lane to ruination, via the glories attendant to a ball-playing youth, in Basketball Diaries (1995). Girls: there's a sex scene. Parents: Lots of heroin...
...Defensively I think we could have really used[Janowski]," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smithsaid. "She's our enforcer in the lane. If shescores for us, that's extra...
Harvard senior Alison Seanor responded with a three-point play, but Lippe did the same at the other end of the floor and then knocked down a jumper to put Dartmouth ahead for the duration. Tortolani then hit a jumper of her own, and Berdinka sliced through the lane for a deuce to increase the Big Green's lead...
Before everyone has come to a stop on the flat, four-lane straightaway, a Toyota and a Honda have nosed up to an invisible starting line. A fat kid in a ball cap stands between them and raises his arms, then drops them. Engines scream and rubber burns. Speeds approach 100 m.p.h., and 1,320 ft. later, the Toyota's rear lights flash, signaling the winner...