Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mills' goal, by contrast, was slow and sweet. From the moment Mills touched the ball in the Indiana end, the shot was expected, anticipated, but somehow still not stoppable...
...autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, the author somewhat sourly recalls teaching at Harvard in the 1870s. What seemed to perplex Adams was the naive faith of his students that their education somehow had a purpose and a utility. When he finally asked an undergraduate what he intended to get out of his studies, Adams was startled by the answer: "The degree of Harvard College is worth money to me in Chicago...
...Howard). Chief Justice Warren Burger may have made a mistake in attributing the statement to Howard, but there's no mistaking the element of truth in the notion--an element that Boller and George seem to overlook. They've checked out their quotes in a scholarly way, but somehow they lose the pizazz of the lines as they go along...
...around barely visible boundaries, and we have no idea who the hell we are. Of course, various people have tried to find out; we have drifted down the river with Huck Finn, poured across the highways with the Joads, maybe followed Kerouac through his woozy continental high-jinks. We somehow believe that there exists a sense, a spirit, something, that defines this tumbled vastness as distinctly American...
...went to a newsstand on the street to check out those infamous tabloids, which somehow managed to put the Dinkins victory on its front page only minutes after the winner was declared. Waiting at the newsstand were two bedraggled and apparently intoxicated men who were Black...