Word: rust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...game was also Harvard’s first chance to shake off rust from exams...
...Smith Swim Center in Providence, R.I., the Harvard swimmers showed no signs of rust, picking up right where they had left off and handily defeating Brown (1-4, 1-4 EISL...
...stiffest challenge for the Harvard women’s squash team so far this year has been the long lay-off in the middle of the season. The Crimson (3-0, 2-0 Ivy) knocked off any rust from its rackets with a 9-0 stomping of Williams (0-2) yesterday...
...sideways, for a dash of urban knowingness. Pontiac, John Deere and their industrial brethren had been planting logos on the caps for years when in the late '90s aspiring rock musicians in such hip neighborhoods as the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, N.Y., started wearing them as a tribute to Rust and Farm Belt masculinity. Now fashion designers like Heatherette, below, place them on the perfectly coiffed heads of runway models, and Hollywood blades like Benicio Del Toro wear them out on the town. The big ol'brim might even protect their vision from camera flashbulbs. --By Benjamin Nugent
...days before the Sept. 2000 grand opening of a replica of Amsterdam's railway station at his Holland Village property development in the Chinese rust-belt city of Shenyang, agri-business tycoon Yang Bin decided he wanted the large greenhouses nearby filled with flora so visitors would get the impression the project was on track. Yang's farm experts protested there was no way to grow the requested tulip and orchid plants that quickly. Undeterred, Yang went out and bought them from local farmers, replanted them in the greenhouses and passed them off as his own. "If you work...