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Word: ruts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Tiger Tales: Stickwomen Need Victory to Stay in Ivy Title Race | 10/26/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: M. Booters at a Crossroads | 10/2/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 2, 1991 | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colorado River: A Fight over Liquid Gold | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Oy, Vey! Dershowitz Has a Lot of Chutzpah in Chutzpah | 6/4/1991 | See Source »

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