Word: ruts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown (7-2-2 overall; 2-0-2 Ivy) is second in the standings but has fallen into a mid-season rut, going 1-2-1 in its last four games. Penn, on the other hand, is riding high after last week's victory against Princeton. The Quakers' red hot goalie Suzi Pures made 17 saves...
...course, when you are dealing with a team, a slight change in chemistry could turn a whole season around, but the more the Crimson loses, regardless of the level of its play, the more difficult it becomes to break out of the rut...
...their version of pastoral -- a noble-savage counterpoint to the corporate rat race. The myth got lost in the series of unsuccessful movies he made after his greatest, On the Waterfront. Schickel concentrates on how and why this happened to the celluloid Brando, leaving the real-life actor to rut, brood and grow fat in some other, more scandalous, less lucid book...
...case the Gulf of California, some thousand miles to the southwest -- and nothing natural has ever managed to stand in its way. In its slashing, headlong rush, the Colorado gouged out a pretty impressive piece of sculpture known as the Grand Canyon. The river has been running in this rut for 5 million or 6 million years...
...venom for Jews who fail to join him in his crusade to confront. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky? A "house Jew." Ditto for Rabbi Ben Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel. Anyone who fails to exhibit sufficient chutzpah (Dershowitz determines how much that is) is falling into the same rut that led to discrimination, pogroms and Auschwitz...