Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman Jamie Lang took a pass from junior Jessica Post and cannoned a shot from 25 yards out into the upper left corner of the goal just over the outstretched hands of Harvard goalie junior Anne Browning...
Spearheading the Crimson's recent turnaround, the defense has really coalesced as a unit. It kept Harvard in last week's game after giving up a 10-0 lead and sealed the win when junior defensive back Ben Green intercepted a pass with 1:23 remaining. Kacyvenski, senior linebacker Scott Larkee, and an improving line have led the transformation back into last year's form...
...here!" she cried before launching into a rocking "You Are The Camera" from her new album Bed. Indeed, the insufferable heat was the biggest deterrent to this particular concert. Water bottles were thrown into the audience after almost every song, and this reviewer saw at least one person almost pass out due to extreme heat. Had the club been many degrees cooler, the concert would have been significantly better...
...entrance brings about revelations (opening up, as it were) and conciliations--between Nathan and Jim, Lily and Sara, Sara and Luke. Aptly enough for a novel about the neglected, Nathan works at the Lost Property office of the London Underground, the repository of the forgotten. Like the objects that pass through Nathan's hands, the characters stand in limbo--existing but unrecognised...
...none of the proposed solutions seems adequate, and a writer who chooses to confront the problem at all (I'll pass, thanks) may find that "he" and "his" are still the best. The problem stems from the fact that language, though evolving, remains in many ways stubborn and resistant to change. Linguists divide language's parts of speech into two classes: open and closed. Words in the open class are more flexible. Open nouns can adapt quite fluidly as culture changes, so that "Negro" shifts to "colored," then "black" and "African-American." Pronouns, however, belong to the closed class...