Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartmouth hasn't been the same since super quarterback Jay Fielder left in 1993. Until the Big Green can find a player who makes the sleepy town of Hanover, N.H. forget about "The Man," Dartmouth's gridiron game just won't be the same...
...Princeton still has super attacker Lisa Rebane and a pair of second team All-Ivy players: goaltender Liz Hill and forward Skye Delano-Nuttal. Hill led the league in save percentage (.935) and goals-against average...
There are times in which Ripken seems not just a throwback but the last true sports hero. He carries the requisite super star salary--$6 million annually for two more years--but almost none of the other baggage that has come to be associated with the modern-day professional athlete. He has never sulked, malingered, strutted, whined, wheedled or referred to himself in the third person. He has turned down several opportunities to become a free agent, preferring to remain an Oriole and a Baltimorean. He has endorsements, to be sure, but his most famous one is for milk...
...Soviets' test of their first atomic weapon in 1949 that galvanized Washington and U.S. scientists. Something bigger, exponentially more powerful than the atom bomb, had to be built, argued physicist Edward Teller. When Harry Truman was told of Teller's design for a hydrogen bomb, code-named Super, the President said, "What the hell are we waiting for?" The U.S. effort went into overdrive, partly because Washington suspected--rightly, as it turned out--that the Soviets were developing a Super of their...
...inherently immoral, a weapon of genocide, since its lethal footprint (unlike the A-bomb's) could not be confined to a purely military objective. He was convinced that the development of the H-bomb would only escalate the arms race. It was in fact his dedicated opposition to the Super, claims Rhodes, and not his cursory contacts with Soviet agents, that led the Atomic Energy Commission in 1953 to strip Oppenheimer of his security clearance for "fundamental defects in his character...