Word: lone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson played an excellent defensive game, with the team's lone error coming in the final inning...
Vasilii Vereshchagi, an independent painter,depicted scenes from his travels as well as imagesof battles and bloodshed that had haunted Russiaafter the disastrous and bloody Crimean War. Thespontenaity of his "Mortally Wounded" (1873) showsmodern war's horrors: sketched in broadbrushstrokes, the lone soldier lunges toward us,clutching his wound instead of his gun which liesforgotten on the ground behind...
Through the course of the play, Tam and his Japanese sidekick, "Blackjap" Kenji (Edward Park), confront the disappointing reality behind their romantic conceptions of both white and Black America. In a comically surreal dream sequence their childhood hero, the Lone Ranger, is exposed as a heroine-addicted, racist fraud. Their long-awaited meeting with Ovaltine's Black trainer, Charley Popcorn, proves disillusioning as well--offended by their Black mannerisms, the old man dismisses the duo as a pair of insane "yellow negroes...
...going to beat Princeton with only five hits," Wentzell said. Harvard's lone hit in the first game came from Prior, while the Tigers--led by Kristy Schmidt's perfect 3-for-3--cracked 10 hits...
Polikoff, the team's lone freshman, turned her first collegiate start into a shutout. "Lee is a developing story," Wentzell said. "She has a lot of poise and composure...