Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, to explain Bob Kerrey? The junior Senator from Nebraska, whose personal valor was certified for all time when he lost a leg in Vietnam, is equally fearless wading through political minefields. Opposing a Senate resolution supporting George Bush's gulf policy, adopted 97-3, Kerrey declared, "No American should die in the Persian Gulf in order to hold down the price of gasoline." Impatient with the inadequacy and dithering of the budget debate, he predicted, "We will pass a budget that will reduce the deficit by $34 billion, the economy will continue to weaken, and the deficit will grow...
...They string it out on punts to account for everybody on the line," Gordian said, "but that leaves the middle weak. We're taught to hop the inside leg and go for the point of the kick. And the first person through is responsible for occupying the personal protector...
...Failla was slowed by seven stitches in his leg, the result of an injury incurred at the Greater Boston Championships two weeks ago. Failla, usually a high finisher, was only the 11th-best Harvard runner yesterday...
...before that granting to the fortuitously born preferential admission into a prestigious university is the absolute antithesis of the "level playing field" that America idealizes. Even if Harvard really did consider legacy status only as a tie-breaking factor, the policy would amount giving the rich and powerful a leg up on those who struggled up from the bottom. (Remember, most parents of legacies attended Harvard before the University even made a pretense of democratic admissions...
Goal of the Week: It's a toss-up. Aesthetically, it would have to go to Alex Estevez's score against UNH Thursday. Estevez barrelled over a defender in an effort to get to the ball and then, with his leg completely outstreched and his body nearly parallel to the ground, booted the ball past the extended arm of diving UNH goaltender John Leader...