Word: mite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, it was later revealed that many of those lovable Villanova players were involved in NCAA infractions, and more alarmingly, were involved with drugs--and not just marijuana. And worst of all, Villanova's mighty mite of a point guard, Gary Mclain, told this sordid tale in a shocking expose in Sports Illustrated. All of a sudden the under-dog got pretty unattractive...
Allister Sparks is South Africa's Walter Lippmann: knowing, patrician and a mite holier than thou. Like Lippmann, he is both chronicler and confidant of the alite. He was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail, a crusading antiapartheid newspaper, and wrote The Mind of South Africa, a tour-de-force history of apartheid, published in 1990. In Tomorrow Is Another Country (Hill and Wang; 254 pages; $22), which Sparks calls a sequel to that book, he has crafted a narrative of the momentous events of the past decade that culminated in the election of Nelson Mandela as the first...
...want diversity--Torpedo's got it. At any given time you could see a 17-year-old paired with a 34-year old on the ice. And who knows, maybe even some playing time for a teenage goalie, a mite at 5'8", 155 pounds...
...second half, with the Crimson keying more on the pass, the Bison went to their mighty-mite running back. Rich Lemon, who finished the afternoon with 187 yards on 28 carries, including a 65-yard touchdown scamper in the third quarter...
...obviously have little to tell you. Lately my selfrecriminations have ebbed in the discovery that 1) I m mortal, 2) I have flaws and weaknesses, 3) I am I, my own nature, which is my given nature. In the record of species achievement and purpose I have added my mite of awareness that, given to you or others, may help you be scornful or tearful or otherwise meaningful to yourselves to the end that your awareness be a mite added to species achievement and purpose...