Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a defensive player as mobile and as spectacular as sophomore Char Joslin...
...disgraced party official received a show trial and a bullet in the head. In more recent times, Kremlin power brokers who fell from grace languished in obscure retirement. But last week Boris Yeltsin, who had lost his job as head of the Moscow Communist Party in spectacular fashion only seven days earlier, was appointed first deputy chairman of the State Committee for Construction, a government position that carries ministerial rank. While that represents a demotion, Kremlin watchers could not recall any previous Soviet official's being vilified and sacked from a top job, then re-emerging so quickly in another...
...matter. Despite a spectacular performance by Harvard goalie Jennifer White, Providence proved itself divine, 8-3, in front of 50 people at Bright Center...
...After a spectacular finish in 1986--he topped the Crimson scoring list--Mills missed the first part of this season because of a knee injury suffered last spring. Then he came back, and had to adjust to a new offensive scheme...
Then trading began in New York, and the unimaginable happened: a collapse on a scale never seen before -- no, not even in 1929. Prices went down, down, down, swiftly wiping out an entire year's spectacular gains. "I just can't believe that this is happening," moaned one trader, as he took nonstop sell orders at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. At lunchtime, brokers across the U.S. went hungry or ate sandwiches at their desks while trying to keep phone receivers pressed to both ears. "This is going to make '29 look like a kiddie party," shouted a trader...