Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman shut down B.C. the rest of the game, aided by spectacular defensive play behind her. Shortstop Rachel Donaldson was a vacuum cleaner, robbing base hits deep into the hole as well as up the middle. In centerfield, Liz Crowley also made a huge play, gunning down a B.C. player at home plate...
First-year Coach Barry Haskall's pre-season emphasis on fundamentals and consistency was apparent in the Myrtle Beach series. The common denominator in each Crimson outing was flawless defense and spectacular pitching by Polikoff and Fromholz...
...entire American land-based missile force, the U.S. could still obliterate the Soviet % Union with a fraction of the 5,300 warheads on its modern missile submarines and the 4,700 on its bombers. Though the first operational test last week of a Trident II missile resulted in a spectacular pinwheeling explosion, that failure was at worst a temporary setback for a weapon that will give the U.S. a sea-based silo-killing capability for the first time. In fact, it is the Soviet Union, not the U.S., that has a real problem with the survivability of its nuclear forces...
Another burst of information should come in August, when Voyager 2 makes the last swing on its grand tour of the outer planets. Launched in 1977, the probe has already accumulated scientific data and taken spectacular pictures at Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Next stop: Neptune. From earth, Neptune appears as a tiny, fuzzy green ball of light, and its major moon, Triton, as an orange dot. Voyager will provide the first closeup view of both. Triton is especially tantalizing, since it is believed to have its own thin atmosphere of methane, and may be partly covered by oceans of liquid...
...results were spectacular. Johnson, initially a scrawny sprinter, bulked up like a wrestler. In August 1987, he shattered the 100-meter world record with a stunning 9.83-sec. performance at the Rome track-and-field championships, a feat that Francis claims was aided by an extensive anabolic- steroid program. But John Holt, general secretary of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, has said there are no grounds for nullifying the seemingly tainted record, because Johnson tested negative for the drugs after that key race. The Jamaican-born sprinter, 27, had no such luck after his 9.79 sprint in Seoul...