Word: warms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tournaments, one plays for money and personal distinction, but in the Ryder Cup one plays for one's country. (The Olympics resemble the Ryder Cup in this sense, though to a much lesser degree. Who can forget the Nike partisans of the 1992 Dream Team refusing to wear Reebok warm-ups?) It serves no purpose to describe any further how it feels to carry on one's shoulders the hopes and fortunes of one's fellow citizens, because every competitor calls the feeling "indescribable...
...tournament featured over 120 players from 15 schools. While eight Harvard players competed, not all of the top Crimson players were represented. Co-captain John Doran, Green's first cousin and the team's top player, stayed back, as did junior Andrew Styperek, presumably to warm up for the next two weeks...
...Quel beat. It crept out of the warm-up DJ's competent hash in a sexy South American slouch and suddenly exploded into a cheer of whistles, bongos and absolute samba soccer hooliganery. And then the night just went all over the place from there. In the absence of DJ-as-God pretense, there was just hair-on-your-chest music to make you dance. It was feel-good, dressed-down, non-glam house music, hot and hasty in your joints like you haven't heard in a long time. The anchors of the show were definitely the celebrity pieces...
...conversation with him he was very warm and approachable," says Eric R. Rosenbaum...
...first novelist. During some early interviews, she mentioned that her beginning work on the Harry Potter books corresponded briefly with a bad patch in her personal life. She was newly divorced, temporarily out of work, on the dole and living in an unheated Edinburgh flat. To keep them both warm, she would wheel her young daughter into a cafe and sometimes jot down Harry Potter ideas on napkins...