Word: roading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a successful opening to its Ivy League season against the Columbia Lions last weekend, the Harvard women's soccer team takes to the road to face Ancient eight foe Yale in New Haven...
...more liberal members of the New York City Council counter that accepting government funding for art should not subject institutions to the personal prejudices of public officials. Back in New York, the underfunded Brooklyn Museum of Art ? which was hoping that "Sensations" would help put it back on the road to the big leagues ? faces a no-win situation: If they back down and cancel the show, they?ve likely closed their doors to future groundbreaking works. If they stand their ground and defy the mayor, their doors may be closed, period...
...Bluejays (3-0-1) captured the top spot in the nation after upsetting then-No. 2 St. Louis on the road last Sunday with a last-second strike in the pouring rain. At Ohiri Field on Saturday the Jays exhibited their road-tested poise as they stifled the Crimson in each third of the field...
...fantasy literature should not overshadow the liberties she takes with the form. Most notably, her wizard world is not at all remote from daily realities. It takes a cyclone to transport Dorothy to Oz. In contrast, Harry can walk a few steps through a London pub near Charing Cross Road and enter Diagon Alley, a wizard shopping bazaar, where he and his classmates meet late each summer to buy school supplies. And getting from there to Hogwarts is a snap; Harry and his friends go to King's Cross Station and board the Hogwarts Express, which departs early every September...
...apparently, society no longer expects me to take this high road. Not only is there a national chain of laser-hair-removal stores, called Vanishing Point, that runs an ad with a woman touching only a finger-sized part of her otherwise hairless body, but--I've completely forgotten the end of this sentence. I'm stuck on that "finger-sized part of her otherwise hairless body" part...