Word: superhumanly
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...most basic baseball fantasy (Damn Yankees and The Natural are typical examples) an ordinary mortal suddenly, if briefly, finds himself endowed with superhuman powers. These he employs to upset the elegantly balanced geometry of the game by lending his services to some perpetually losing club, thereby turning it into a perpetual winner. In these tales, individual dreams of glory -- permanently arrested adolescent division -- are fused with the mass yearnings of a fandom frustrated by years of suffering in the cellar with their local heroes...
...heptathlon and long-jump champion of the 1988 Games, she became the greatest -- and perhaps best known -- woman athlete in the world. Her world- record point total in the seven-event heptathlon (7,291) is regarded as virtually unmatchable. But one warm night in Tokyo last August, the superhuman Jackie Joyner-Kersee seemed momentarily mortal. She pulled a hamstring muscle in the 200-m race and left the world championships on a stretcher. "I thought my career was over," she says. It was just a temporary abdication though...
...measure of Clinton's fortitude that he is even within striking distance. His equanimity in the face of charges that have driven others to retirement is almost superhuman. But here he is, the nominee, able to peruse a long list of vice-presidential possibilities before deciding to clone himself -- and to find an even better, or at least less hobbled, version of himself at that. But for a certain arrogance and a definite slickness, Al Gore is Clinton without flaws, the first expression of Clinton's second chance...
...Superhuman Effort...
...truly hope that every one of us can make a superhuman effort to be particularly sensitive, caring and understanding of the needs and concerns of all others in this community," McArthur wrote...