Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge waves his hand in disgust, but it is clear that the green lawyer has the floor. "Seattle has endured a long age of sports ineptitude. Do you remember the Mariner teams of the 70's? Probably not, since not only did the teams frequently inhabit the loss column in triple-digits, the franchise only came to be in the second half of the decade. How about the Seahawks? Only once in their existence has Seattle's NFL franchise, if I can even call it that, advanced to the AFC Championship. Need...
...early 1990s the group renewed its recruitment campaign. (Some members even tried turning the cult's manifesto into a prime-time series.) A 1993 ad in USA Today carried this message: "Caution: If the above information is assimilated, you may experience such side effects as loss of marriage, family, friends, career, respectability, and credibility. Continued use could even result in the loss of your membership in the human kingdom." No one can say they weren't warned...
Testosterone is the young man's curse and the moviemaker's blessing. It imparts to the male teenager that preoccupying randiness that drives him to adventures and alliances he's going to regret someday--at best with wry embarrassment, at worst with a sense of loss verging on the tragic. Yet those rioting hormones also power tales of the young and restless that can sell profitably to the young and restless--in other words, date movies for the under...
...ceased to celebrate people who bound their lives to the defense of the simple moralities that Wayne embodied--moralities that even liberals, deploring his reactionary politics, found they missed. Wayne's legend, his apparent immortality, the sources of which keep eluding Wills, derive from that curiously haunting sense of loss...
...easy to say that Harvard's lack of scoring was the reason for its loss, but it won't do any good. Yes, if Harvard scored more it would have won--duh--but this line of thought focuses on what the team can't fix, as opposed to what...