Word: sliver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late, reading their psyches has become less a genteel academic pastime than an extreme sport in which sneakermakers, brewers and car manufacturers scramble for market share. Politicians trolling for votes, churches seeking converts, military services recruiting soldiers, moviemakers looking for viewers and magazines for readers: hardly a sliver of society is exempt from the need to understand and, indeed, cater to this generation. Yet Gen X has proved irritatingly contrarian. "The soul of Gen X is amorphous, intangible, elusive," says Richard Thau, 32, who heads the civic group Third Millennium. "That's why I like the term X: fill...
...four days later, Harvard suffered a heartbreaking 12-6 loss to a good UMass team on April 16. Not only did the Crimson possibly ruin its final hope of making the tournament (there still remained a sliver of a chance), but it lost its leading scorer Ferrucci to a torn anterior cruciate ligament for the rest of the season...
Only then is there a sliver of hope of it making the 1997 NCAA's. Yale 5 Harvard...
Maybe Brown did. It was the Bears' defeat at the hands of Dartmouth, 90-78, which destroyed any sliver of hope they may have had to edge out the Crimson for the title...
Left with only a 30-foot by six-foot sliver of land, the owner attempted to sell the property to a neighbor, but the neighbor was not interested, Hardina said...