Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a catastrophe you could live with only if you kept it quiet," but native childish curiosity drives him to push for answers. His father's family, with its tragic breakup and its missing brother, who may or may not have been an IRA hero, holds a score of riddles, and his mother's, which is mysteriously bound to his father's by more than their marriage, is just as puzzling. No adult will speak to him directly of the families' history, and his knowledge of the troubled family story emerges from half-heard whispers and details gleaned from emotional...
After becoming the first ever Ivy Leaguer to score 2,000 points and grab 1,000 rebounds, Feaster was named a Kodak All-American this year, considered the most prestigious award in women's college basketball short of Player of the Year...
...Alan Rudolph's Afterglow and the Wachowski Brothers' Bound, is perhaps the last cultural realm where working as a plumber guarantees for an individual immediate and intense sexual gratification; this unfailing phenomenon is even more surprising when held against sitcom plumbers, who mostly appear as overweight white guys who score cheap laughs when their butts poke out from the waistlines of their jeans...
...possibility of a professional career without limitations, pushed him early on to work on his defensive game. Jordan did that in college and then in the pros, unusual for a young player who came in with such remarkable offensive skills. For not many players who can score that readily have much taste for the exhausting, gritty work at the other end of the court...
Some people love dinner-party brawls. They hope, under the influence of several glasses of wine, to score a Churchillian bull's-eye along the lines of "Yes, madam, but tomorrow I shall be sober!" It never happens...