Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been given a choice, maybe he would be playing center forward and scoring tons of goals. Or right wing and showing off some flashy passes...
...give the icewomen better bench strength, Harvard has four new faces this season--goaltender Gillian D'Souza, center Martina Albright, defender Sue Cullinane, and wing Amy Diehl...
Robertson has returned at a time when, as he says, "there's a feeling of a little more substance in the air." The two U2 collaborations on the record (Testimony and the reactor-hot Sweet Fire of Love) were launched on little more than a wing, a prayer, a guitar riff, a tom-tom beat and a horn chart written by Gil Evans (Miles Davis' collaborator on Sketches of Spain). It is not only talent that makes these songs work, it's a finding of common ground between Robertson and the Dublin boys so sudden and intense that the discovery...
...snowstorm raged and the mercury had dropped to 28 degrees F as Continental Flight 1713, bound for Boise, took off last week from Denver's Stapleton International Airport. The DC-9 was airborne but a few seconds when it clipped the runway with its left wing and cartwheeled down the tarmac, breaking into three pieces. Of the 81 aboard, 28 died, including the pilot and copilot...
...reservoir of bitterness" against the Speaker. Some of that is normal in the election season, but it seemed to go beyond all bounds last week when Georgia's Newt Gingrich stormed through Florida calling Wright a "genuinely corrupt man" and comparing him to Mussolini. Even given Gingrich's right-wing fervor, that is startling stuff...