Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern racquet. Like everything ! else, there must be degrees of graphite. "He was hitting the ball harder than I was. I need something with a little more power." On this technological subject, he went so far as to suggest that West German Boris ("Boom-Boom") Becker, 17, the spectacular find of the tournament, was a souped-up shortcutter without a solid wooden foundation. But zing is more than string. McEnroe also had to admit, "I felt a little old out there...
...They have black bodies and huge showy wings that look like they are made of isinglass, delicately veined and edged in brilliant orange. Their legs are orange too. Their big, bulging eyes are deep red, and each is centered with a meaningful- looking dark brown dot. They are beautiful, spectacular bugs, and their appearance is exuberant and exciting, a marvel, a celebration. Their presence is a reminder that there are other life cycles than ours, other rhythms of living than the human...
...Amal-controlled neighborhood in Beirut. Waiting for them were at least ten Red Cross vehicles that would take them to Damascus, where a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter transport was ready to fly them to West Germany and freedom after 17 days of the televised Terrorist Suspense Spectacular...
NASA tried again two days later. This time, with the shuttle pointed in the right direction, the laser beam flashed off the mirror for more than 2 1/2 min., creating a spectacular light show for Discovery's crew as they broadcast the booming strains of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture...
...sheriffs and physicians, scholars and sellers of all kinds of odd equipment -- came for four days of shoptalk at the first World Congress & Exposition for Disaster & Emergency Management. They came to chat about "pain management" and "grief work," about every kind of horror, about all the most public and spectacular ways...