Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fondest memory: My fondest memories have just been talking to various close friends late into the night. Nothing too spectacular...
While the meet may not have been a spectacular Crimson showcase, Failla pointed to the youth of the team as its future strength...
...Crimson fielders came back to life, committing only two errors. Outfielders Meader and sophomore Cheryl Sadow made spectacular diving catches that stymied the Princeton run machine in the later innings...
Equipped with both a creamy charm and a cold-blooded willingness to manipulate those drawn to him, Koresh was a type well known to students of cult practices: the charismatic leader with a pathological edge. He was the most spectacular example since Jim Jones, who committed suicide in 1978 with more than 900 of his followers at the People's Temple in Guyana. Like Jones, Koresh fashioned a tight-knit community that saw itself at desperate odds with the world outside. He plucked sexual partners as he pleased from among his followers and formed an elite guard of lieutenants...
Back when he was running one of the hottest banks in Belgrade, before its * spectacular collapse last month, Jezdimir Vasiljevic was known for his financial bravado, his wild ties and his even wilder statements. But last week the stocky and shadowy man known as "Jezda the Boss" was holed up in Israel, condemning Serbian aggression in the Balkan war and hatching plans to preside over a government-in-exile. Such grandiose schemes come naturally to Vasiljevic, 45, the maverick entrepreneur who sponsored last year's Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match in Yugoslavia and has variously been suspected of everything...