Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Visone-Britz-Chalmers line struck for the winner in the extra session. After both teams had good chances, Visone shot one off the crossbar behind Marshall. With the rebound still bouncing in front, Britz poked it in for the game-winner...
...shot just before the Elis four-goal second period explosion. But in last year's 1-1 tie at Bright. Harvard's only red light was a low Alan Litchfield blast from the point which hit Tortorella's stick-side pad and bounced in and Mark Fusco's game-winner Saturday night followed the same route...
Over drinks, your client shares a disturbing bit of news. The bid you have been helping him prepare for construction of the new city hall is a sure winner because he has arranged to slip the mayor $10,000. You choke on an hors d'oeuvre, pondering the lawyer's age-old dilemma: what to do about a client who admits to being involved in an ongoing crime...
...officials insisted when announcing the revival: "You will not find a more handsome, readable magazine in America." That boast prompted high, perhaps unreachable, expectations. The first issue is certainly lavish (290 glossy pages) and diverse. To accompany an entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball. More...
Justin Kaplan, 57, one of the best working biographers, was unhappy when he tried his hand at fiction in his Harvard days. "It was not covert or impersonal enough," recalls the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner for Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. But Kaplan's sharply observed lives possess an imaginative drive found in the best tales. Says Kaplan: "It's like a Dickens novel. You get a feeling of the society around the life. And a good narrative...