Word: nail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second game proved to be another nail biter. Harvard got on the board in the bottom of the first on leftfielder Marcel Durand's single to center that drove home Konjoyan. Penn tied the score in the third when sophomore catcher Brian Hoehn reached on Durand's three-base error and scored on outfielder Doug Salaway's RBI single...
...Crimson can beat the speedy Wolverines, it will nail down a spot at the national tournament to be held in two weeks at Brown. Otherwise, Harvard will have to put on a strong showing against the lower seeds in order to earn an at-large bid to the nationals...
...formal unification is still months away, East Germans demonstrated last week that they are at one with the democratic spirit of their Western brethren. Fully 93% of the East German electorate turned out to hammer the last nail in the Communists' coffin. A three-party alliance headed by the CDU, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's sister party, shocked the supposedly front-running Social Democratic Party by winning 48% of the vote. The SPD captured only 22%. The conservative alliance fell just eight seats short of a majority in the 400-member Volkskammer, or parliament. Although that forced negotiations over...
...past, Roth does it with the literary equivalent of fun-house mirrors. The Roth-like character in Deception is a distortion of Roth, the man in the book-jacket photo whose intense gaze can penetrate 18 inches of solid Philistine. Readers attempting to nail the real Roth end up with a tinkling of broken images...
...spells trying times. Mike Tyson's crown has toppled, and the Trumps have split. Oat bran is no panacea; Drexel is bankrupt. "I suspect," says editor E. Graydon Carter, 40, co-founder of Spy magazine, "that when they find red suspenders cause back problems, that will be the final nail in the yuppie coffin...