Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 20 seconds left, Bevilacqua initiated from behind the cage, on the goalie's right. He split dodged, so effectively that his defender slipped, which allowed him through. When he got within range of the crease, natural instinct took over...
...walked him [the defender] for a minute, because I wanted to slow him down," Bevilacqua said. "I hadn't used my best move, my split dodge all day, so I wanted to go with that. He bit on the fake and I got to the crease. I leaped in and got into a little bit of trouble, but as soon as I let the ball go I knew...
...however--the waiter seemed thrilled at our animalistic enjoyment of the food. A third appetizer seemed impossible to pass up. The only glaringly untraditional dish on the menu, the grilled shrimp on fennel salad is the last vestige of Alloro's former image. Four enormous shrimp are chargrilled and split open on top of a healthy portion of shredded fennel, red cabbage, and black olives. Lightly dressed in vinaigrette, the salad tops a circular "pancake" of ground garbanzo beans. The pancake is strangely savory with a crisp and lightly fried exterior and a moist and tender interior. The coarse, granular...
...reached. Thus, the second time the team heads up the mountain, time is as much an enemy as the mountainous terrain itself. The climbers cross the avalanche-ridden Khumbu Icefall for a second time en route to the top. When they reach their previous camp, the climbers split up with Vesturs taking the lead sans oxygen. Finally, the climbers reach the top but, as is often true of hard-earned achievements, they can only celebrate briefly before retreating to their warmer, more oxygen-rich base...
...take stock for a moment. To name just a few random things we did in a hundred years: we split the atom, invented jazz and rock, launched airplanes and landed on the moon, concocted a general theory of relativity, devised the transistor and figured out how to etch millions of them on tiny microchips, discovered penicillin and the structure of DNA, fought down fascism and communism, bombed Guernica and painted the bombing of Guernica, developed cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers...