Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Enter Hepfer, lining up for a field goal whichhad a slim-to-none chance of success, and itseemed like Slim had already left for Texas...
...junior placekicker had hidden Slim inhis back pocket and booted a wind-aided,career-best 43-yard field goal to give the Big Reda lead with with five minutes remaining in thegame...
...Leaguer to bop 50 home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely mound grace of rookie Ramon Martinez helps sustain Los Angeles in a last-gasp pennant race...
...wouldn't be impossible for Iraqi terrorists to execute such a disaster. Yes, the chances are slim, but only last August the Pentagon prohibited journalists from reporting the names or where-abouts of American soldiers in the Gulf. That policy has since been changed, but many reporters suspected that Pentagon officials feared terrorist reprisals on families in this country...
...such time was his recounting of a true story in which a professor slated for a visiting spot at Harvard rejected a tenure offer at Stanford Law School so as to risk the slim odds which one fights when competing for a tenure offer at Harvard...