Word: washouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advice she is known and admired for, the First Lady was quiet, listening while others did most of the talking. Afterward, one participant couldn't remember whether Hillary had said anything at all. As a friend and colleague put it, she was still "coming to grips" with the Democratic washout at the polls...
While Saturday was a complete washout for the Harvard and Yale baseball teams, yesterday was a total disaster for the Crimson as it was swept by the Bulldogs in a double header at New Haven...
...below the North Dakota border, was once a subtropical floodplain, where dinosaurs roamed amid palm trees and ferns on the edge of a dying inland sea. One day a mature male T. rex, weighing up to five tons and measuring nearly 40 feet in length, died in a silty washout. At least two albertosaurs, sharp-toothed scavengers about half T. rex's size, fed on the carcass, leaving a few of their teeth behind. Within months a river overflowed its banks and swept the bones away, eventually covering them with a three-foot $ layer of silt, which preserved them...
...same thing, without the Patriot missiles. A well-planned expansion, like the 1969 addition of the Kansas City Royals, can go well. But if you don't pick the right market and form a team that wins games within five or six years, you have the Seattle Pilots. A washout in the Pacific Northwest, the team changed ownership and moved to Milwaukee to become the Brewers...
What would have been the biggest Ivy League upset of all was a washout when Harvard held on against Columbia last week, but there was still excitement elsewhere around the Ancient Eight...