Word: oed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black steps appeared. Dusted in footprints, but still mud-free enough to showcase their newness, the steps have proven popular. Strangely though, no one seems to want to take credit for the deed. Loews denies installing the steps and the Fresh Pond Shopping Center's legal consultant, William M. O'Brien, declines to comment at all on the matter. Vivian, a ticket seller at the movie theater, was cut off by her superiors before she could reveal what she knew, but acknowledged that the stairs are gaining a following. "It was about time they did something." But who is they...
...probably wrangle with the ribbon far less than I'd sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy--actually crunching out the letters, tack tack tack, not beholden to mysterious will o' wisp electrons? Why are we so far removed? Do you know how all the black boxes in your world operate...
...mound or even when the old warhorse Brett Saberhagen tested out his reconstructed shoulder. As Williams said in postgame interviews Monday, this is a team that the city of Boston loves, both for its flashy stars (Martinez and Nomar Garciaparra) and its less shining, but still stellar, players (Troy O'Leary, Jason Varitek, Derek Lowe--the last two products of a wonderous trade of Heathcliffe Slocumb to Seattle...
...cheering myself hoarse from the grandstand, while I'm sad that the hated Yankees are in the World Series yet again, I have to say that the Sox delivered for me. Their gutsy play and come-from-behind victory against Cleveland were inspiring; I won't soon forget O'Leary's two home-runs in Game 5. Watching Martinez mow down the Yankees one right after the other in Game 3 of the ALCS was a sight for the ages...
...HARVARD WOMEN'S HEAVYWEIGHT COACH Liz O'Leary...