Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when you play Goalie Roulette in the late stretches of sudden death overtime, as legs and hearts give way to hopeful belief in a stone wall covering all 24 square feet of the mesh at your end of the ice, sometimes the odds beat you. Even when the gun's chamber is supposed to be empty...
...Boston College. In sudden death...
...easy, it's free, and you can earn free tickets. Since you're traveling anyway, you've got nothing to lose." That is how it always begins: "Bill, have you heard about this new kind of glue? They say it has the most incredible effect." And then the sudden fall. "I guess it can't hurt. They say everyone is doing...
Call it stargazing. Call it a sudden interest in philosophy...
What cannot be used to account for the sudden uproar is any commensurate increase in crime generally. The FBI figures for the first six months of 1993, the latest available, show violent crime down 3%. Crime overall was down 4%. But the national psyche doesn't make seasonal adjustments. Whatever the latest backlash owes to hype and hysteria, it is also a response to a festering problem. Most crime is down or leveling out, but only when compared with the high plateau it reached in the late '70s. It's hard to take comfort from the news that the murder...