Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such successes have remained unsung, however, in the face of D.A.R.E.'s overwhelming hegemony. Last month, for instance, New York City signed on to D.A.R.E. at an estimated cost of $8.8 million. Even though Life Skills has been tested in 50 New York schools over the decade, police commissioner Howard Safir said he had never heard of it. Meanwhile, Glenn Levant, head of D.A.R.E. America, dismisses his program's negative evaluations: "Just because someone publishes a paper and calls it a study does not really mean anything, particularly when you're dealing with something as subjective as whether prevention works...
Overshadowed by such names as Stauffer, Miller and Gudeman for most of the season, Bingham--an unsung hero all season long--has blossomed in her sophomore season...
Also leading the team were face off specialist junior Pat McCulloch, named the team's Unsung Hero and sophomore defenseman Jeremy Linzee, who was selected as the Most Improved Player...
...Bernhard, I leave a full-page ad in the Harvard Crimson. Bernhard, one of Harvard's unsung heroes, should tell the world what he has accomplished here, but he'd be too modest to use it. So, I'd just leave him a coaching job at Harvard. He exemplifies the quiet leader in soccer and baseball, and this year he finally received accolades for the soccer team's success...
...greatest crime? The answer struck Ellroy as simple: he couldn't and wouldn't. "I said, 'Wait a minute. I can write an epic in which the assassination is only one crime in a long series of crimes. I can write a novel of collusion about the unsung leg breakers of history. I can do a tabloid sewer crawl through the private nightmare of public policy...