Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is Emmet "Tripp" Tracy, the junior Harvard goaltender who always seems to come up with superhuman performances in televised games...
History will judge Richard Nixon as much more than the Watergate man. And he leaves another, brighter monument: his own superhuman determination and stamina. It seems almost impossible that he has finally been defeated...
While Harvard boasts its share of large lecture halls, the superhuman class size of certain popular Core classes sometimes strains the system to its limit, forcing some professors to turn away students through the infamous class lottery...
...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...