Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...note the imposing presence of the Green Monster in left field--it dwarfs even the American League's tallest left-fielders. Would-be fly outs in more spacious stadiums become home runs, while line-drive rockets, which careen off the 40-ft. wall, only produce doubles...
This can't be the 11th annual Critical Legal Studies National Conference. I cannot believe the 400 or so people around me include professors who have for years bedeviled the Harvard Law School tenure process, people whom President Reagan called "a misplaced monster of prehistoric radicalism...
Soon software viruses began appearing in university computer systems and in the widely proliferating desktop computers. A rogue program that made the rounds of Ivy League schools featured a creature inspired by Sesame Street called the Cookie Monster. Students trying to do useful work would be interrupted by persistent messages saying "I want a cookie." In one variation, the message would be repeated with greater and greater frequency until users typed the letters C-O-O-K-I-E on their terminal keyboards...
...satellite pictures it resembled a living creature, angrily swirling and pulsing, a one-eyed monster of awesome dimensions. In a vortex of turbulent weather spanning 450 miles, the whirling body of the hurricane seemed to have a mind and will of its own as it marched across the Caribbean, devastating almost everything in its path...
NATION: In a season for scary weather, Hurricane Gilbert proves to be a monster...