Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buchanan was Gonzaga class of '56. I suspect that Pat's character is configured like a tree trunk, in a series of concentric rings--that his huge family and his autocratic, combative father formed the core, and that the crucial second ring, shaped in adolescence, was raw, authoritarian Gonzaga, which educated his father and then, in turn, each of the seven Buchanan brothers...
...Deep Blue was seeing about 200 million positions every second. You and I can see one; Kasparov, two. Maybe three. But 200 million? It was style vs. power, and power won. It was like watching Muhammad Ali, floating and stinging, try to box a steamroller in a very small ring. The results aren't pretty...
...going gets rough, it's not unusual for the referee, the cornermen and even the first few rows of spectators to find themselves covered with a bloody spray. That's always been part of boxing's primal appeal. But what if the blood that flows so freely in the ring contains the virus that causes AIDS? That was the issue on everyone's mind last week when heavyweight fighter Tommy Morrison confirmed, just three weeks after Magic Johnson's triumphant return to basketball, that he too is HIV positive...
What are the chances of contracting the AIDS virus in the ring? Pretty remote, according to most researchers. The skin is an excellent barrier against all kinds of microbes, not just HIV. And even if two opposing boxers suffer cuts at the same time, that doesn't mean transmission is inevitable. Cuts bleed out, making it difficult for the other person's blood to seep in. Furthermore, healthy athletes don't usually have that much HIV in their blood anyway; in the first decade of infection, most of the virus is trapped in the lymph nodes...
Speaking from a couch in the inner ring of the common room, Hoyte opened the program with a speech focusing on affirmative action at the University...