Word: whiskered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absolutely true. The talent-laden New York Mets of the early 1990's self-destructed. The 1989 Orioles, loaded with low-budget rookies, came within a whisker of winning the AL East. Chemistry counts...
JUST HOURS AFTER THE QUEBEC REFERENDUM ON SEPARATION that came within a whisker of breaking up Canada--and may yet do so--President Clinton pronounced. "Ethnic diversity can be the hallmark of a strong and prosperous society," said his spokesman. "The President has often said that our ethnic diversity here in America is one source of our greatest strength..and hopefully it will be for the people of Canada as well...
...with all manner of inadequacies and harassments. Just why China should have put on such an unseemly display for all the world to see was a consuming puzzle, but at least the International Olympic Committee had cause for relief. Two years ago this month, Olympics mandarins came within a whisker of awarding the 2000 Summer Games to Beijing, only in the end to name Sydney, Australia, instead...
...yard individual medley, junior Greta Steffenson swam an incredibly close race against Cornell freshman Kristin Arioli. Steffenson held on to win the race--a time of 4:40.28--with Arioli finishing just a whisker behind, in a time...
...findings buttress a new biological theory proposing that all sorts of small variations in symmetrical features, such as fish fins and birds' forked tails, are signals of genetic stress. For some unexplained reason, lionesses don't fit the theory -- in fact, females with uneven whisker spots lived longer...