Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty-two seconds later, senior Jane Kalinski shot the puck wide of the net, but Carney redirected the errant shot behind Colby goalie Dina Cloutier for a 2-0 lead...
Then Kalinski was whistled on two consecutive penalty calls. It was on the second of these situations that gave Harvard a shorthanded goal. Sophomore Char Joslin dug the puck out of her offensive right-wing corner and flipped it to a wide-open Julie Sasner who buried 50-ft. slapshot...
...wanted to attend a nation-wide conference because I was curious about other students' opinions," said Walker, an Afro-American Studies concentrator...
Half comedy, half social commentary, Gillette takes place against the backdrop of oil rigs and wide-open blue sky. It tells of the types drawn to the fast cash and wild living of Gillette--roughnecks, prostitutes, ex-cons--and focuses on the doomed adventures of Mickey Hollister (John Bottoms) and his college-educated nephew Bobby (Andrew Mutnick). They've driven up to Gillette from Amarillo, Texas with high hopes and no money--only to find that 14,000 other guys got there first...
...with the tragicomic tale of Mickey and Bobby is the story of the shocks that an oil boom puts on a small city's system. As Doreen (Priscilla Smith), a local girl who tends bar at the Silver Dollar Lounge, puts it: "Gillette used to be nothing but a wide spot in the road. Now we got two shopping malls, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Cinema One, Two, and Three." They also got drugs, the local favorite being crystal meth, and their share of bar-room brawls...