Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coach K., I know you are the Ivy League Coach of the Year, and you probably don't need any help scouting North Carolina. However, I thought I'd offer some suggestions for a game plan on how to kick some Tar Heel tail...
...doesn't even happen in amphibians, those wondrously regenerative little creatures, some of which can regrow a cut-off limb or tail. Try to grow an organism from a frog cell, and what do you get? You get, to quote biologist Colin Stewart, "embryos rather ignominiously dying (croaking!) around the tadpole stage...
...Rico to New York City's J.F.K. airport. Although the airliner's pilot did not see either F-16 (he learned of their stealthy approach via the blaring alarm of his onboard collision-avoidance system), one of the jets (flown by a male pilot) apparently hugged the airliner's tail for two minutes, while his female partner loitered farther away. Among the 84 people onboard, two flight attendants and a passenger were slightly hurt when they were thrown to the floor during the 727's evasive maneuvers, in which the pilot made sharp, 4,000-ft. changes in altitude. According...
With just six games remaining in the regular season campaign, the Crimson must get back on the winning track. Harvard's current tail-spin has seen it drop four out of its last five games and eight of its last eleven...
...oppressive, particularly the subtle ways in which Phil--she realizes in retrospect--condescended to her, damaged her self-esteem, made her content to be "the tail to his kite." She never wavered in her devotion to him, however, even when he had an affair with a young Newsweek stringer in the early '60s. By that time, his behavior was becoming more erratic, the result of a manic-depressive disorder that was treated by a psychiatrist who "did more harm than good," she says, recommending existentialist philosophy in lieu of drugs. Finally, on the day he returned home after a stay...