Word: tale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year's underdog winner of both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness; with two fractured bones in his left front leg as he came in third at Belmont, N.Y., the last race of the Triple Crown. The injury will keep him from ever racing again. In a tale now cherished by long shots, his owners had twice tried to sell the potential Triple Crown winner for a pittance but could find no takers...
...child, I didn't understand how doing nothing had caused so much activity, but I recognized the template: David slaying the giant Goliath, or the boy who saved his village by sticking his finger in the dike. And perhaps it is precisely the lure of fairy-tale retribution that colors the lens we look back through. Parks was 42 years old when she refused to give up her seat. She has insisted that her feet were not aching; she was, by her own testimony, no more tired than usual. And she did not plan her fateful...
...epic kind, dedicated to colossal purposes, tight of jaw and stiff of upper lip. That was George Mallory, who said most famously in 1924 that he was climbing Mount Everest "because it is there." But if he ever reached the summit, he never lived to tell the tale. Hillary and Tenzing were two cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing, and did, best, and they made an oddly assorted pair. Hillary was tall, lanky, big-boned and long-faced, and he moved with an incongruous grace, rather like a giraffe. He habitually wore on his head a homemade...
...Though a little too extreme to be realistic," advises one Australian critic, "The Handmaid's Tale still offers a dire warning to humankind, predicting the worst for society is yet to come...
...wife. In her second career, Ulrich got a master's in English from Simmons College in 1971, switched to history as a teaching assistant at the University of New Hampshire, and received her Ph.D in 1980, specializing in colonial history. And then, following her second book, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based On Her Diary, 1785-1812, Ulrich won a Pulitzer Prize...