Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looked like they might fall to the No. 10 ranked Minutemen (6-3), but rode on the shoulders of senior attackman Jim Bevilacqua whose outstanding six goal performance lifted the Crimson to a 13-12 victory. The climax was the offensive star "getting Jimmy with it," scoring in spectacular fashion with only 12 seconds left to turn out the lights on their opponents. HARVARD 13 UMASS...
...This spectacular, signature goal was the culmination of a lifelong athletic rivalry with Kasselakis who Belvilacqua first teamed with in the first grade...
Delia is a pop singer who leaves a mean husband and two baby daughters in Cayro, Ga., to run off to Los Angeles with rock star Randall Pritchard and his pretty-good band, Mud Dog. Ten years later, her homing instinct kicks in after Randall is killed in the spectacular motorcycle wreck that hooks the reader on the first page of the novel...
...Thatcher became a world figure for more than just her politics. She combined a flamboyant willpower with evident femininity. It attracted universal attention, especially after she led Britain to a spectacular military victory over Argentina in 1982. She understood that politicians had to give military people clear orders about ends, then leave them to get on with the means. Still, she could not bear to lose men, ships or planes. "That's why we have extra ships and planes," the admirals had to tell her, "to make good the losses." Fidelity, like courage, loyalty and perseverance, were cardinal virtues...
...beginning of a new historical epoch. All the forces that had made the 20th century such a violent disappointment to idealists--totalitarianism, the gigantic state, the crushing of individual choice and initiative--were publicly and spectacularly defeated. Ascendant instead were the values that Thatcher had supported in the face of sometimes spectacular opposition: free markets and free minds. The world enters the 21st century and the 3rd millennium a wiser place, owing in no small part to the daughter of a small shopkeeper, who proved that nothing is more effective than willpower allied to a few clear, simple and workable...