Word: sail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, Trotman was also captain of the women's ice hockey team, Horn said. She broke her leg while playing Yale early in her first year, and couldn't play hockey or sail until late that season. In her first race that spring, Trotman sailed the New England Women's Championship in a cast, helping her team qualify for the national competition...
...same August meet, he had watched Mike Powell sail past him to take the record and become the world's best long jumper. In June, Lewis ate the dust of Mark Witherspoon and Dennis Mitchell at the 100-m U.S. Olympic trials. Shockingly he failed to qualify for either the 100- or 200-m sprints. In Barcelona for his third Olympic appearance, the world's fastest man has an outside shot at being chosen for the 4 X 100 m-U.S. relay team. But he's only guaranteed a chance to compete in the long jump...
...deeply incised ivory caskets and pyxes favored by the courts of al-Andalus. One of the most impressive bowls in this show, a deep conical form bearing on its inside surface a design of a Portuguese nao, or trading ship, so powerful in its rhythms of hull and sail that the concavity of the dish seems almost to reverse itself under the visual pressure of the form, displays a Christian cross on the boat's mainsail...
People are more than willing to pay for this entertainment, and the team has been booked for Boston's Fourth of July Celebration, where Weil says more than half a million people are expected. For the highlight of that show, Thomas will jump off the ramp and sail over a Honda Civic...
...goodbye. The lost soul in All My Love Is Gone limns a broken triangle in words as simple as heartbreak: "She was angry/ He was free/ She loved him/ Then she left me." In She's Already Made Up Her Mind, a bereft man needs a friend to "sail with me out to that ocean deep/ And let me go easy down over the side/ And remember me to her." Suicide: that'll show...