Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After overcoming poor officiating in the first half and several missed opportunities in the second, the stickwomen remained poised until Martin knocked in the game winner...
...bids were opened one by one, Esther Wunnicke, 60, of the Minerals Management Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, read them aloud. The day's big winner turned out to be the Government, which is the recipient of the lease-sale money. Congressional budget officials in February had estimated that the sale might bring in $500 million or so, but when the counting stopped, 23 companies had offered $2.1 billion for the right to drill on 125 tracts covering 660,000 acres of the outer continental shelf. It was the most money ever bid at an Alaska...
...coach's comment seemed an irrelevant truism at the time. Allard had proved himself a winner, and Cuccia was reportedly on the mend from his rib injury...
Gabrief Garcia Marquez: This man will cop the prize someday sure as my grandmother lives in Forest Hills, N.Y. For one thing, he is from Colombia, and Colombia has never had a winner. One of my many theories is that the Swedish academy picks the name of a country out of a ski hat and worries about finding a writer from there to shower with all those krona. One day Colombia will come up and Marquees will be it. Right now, though, he's just too young, Also, he spends too much of his time writing lefty journalism, In Stockholm...
...just a season, autumn is a time of life for a 43-year-old pitcher, and each National League division winner...