Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...giant with a crocodile's face and powerful Popeye-like forearms...sporting a huge, sail-like, bony structure growing out of its back and deadly, 16-in., stiletto-sharp thumb claws..." --Chicago Tribune...
...dinosaur with] hypertrophy of both the premaxilla and the anterior ramus of the maxilla...and has prominent epipophyses for muscle attachments. The neural spines increase in height rapidly in the middorsal vertebrae, forming a low median sail that is deepest over the sacral vertebrae." --Science
Maintaining these high finishes was certainly no easy task. The Charles River is notoriously difficult course to sail on due to the prevailing winds from the North...
...Freshman Bonney, winning the regatta was especially exciting. Bonney has only been sailing for two months, but she has shown exceptional promise as the second man, known as the crew position, in double-handed racing. For the past few weeks, she has practiced with fellow freshman Shawn Doyle, and she was given the nod to sail as Strothman's crew for the Horn Regatta...
...name O plays on the French word for water (Cirque's founders are French Canadians) but also means to evoke the word of wonder that audiences so often express--Ohhhh!--as gorgeous bodies sail through the air or dive from a 60-ft. pedestal into the pool that occupies much of the huge stage. O could stand for the oasis of sophistication Cirque represents with this production and its sister show, Mystere, at Treasure Island, on the four-mile Strip in the desert...