Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here for the regatta, and they left me with two tokens, so to speak, of their country. I've smoked one and am saving the other, but I don't know for how long." He shook his head, looked at the cigar closely as if it were something to reckon with, and exclaims, "Whooo." The difference between a good cigar and a bad cigar is spitting, Billy explains. "Bad cigars taste very bad. With a bad cigar, you're always lighting it, fighting the canoe. You like to have a cigar that burns evenly. I smoke only...
Harvard is quite capable of excelling in both the ECAC and on a national level, as evidenced by its NCAA Championship ten years ago. With the depth and talent the Crimson boasts this year, both with its veterans and new recruits, Harvard should be a force to reckon with...
...Berman was a force to reckon with in the midfield, using her dexterity and physical prowess to drive the ball up the field, while leveling those who crossed her path...
When I was very young, I made the best bunch of friends I've ever had. We were a crew to reckon with, Meecissi, Monica, Hanukkah and me, Mica. Together, we lived under the dining room table. Of course, I also had a bedroom. This is how I learned to inhabit two places at once. Later, when I reached the Age of Math Class, I found this skill invaluable. While my eyes never left Miss Robinson's face, I was quite decidedly somewhere else. But after many years of such duality, not to mention of crumbs in my pajamas...
Employers who try to skirt the new law will have to reckon with France's army of government inspectors. Lately there have been horror stories about the bureaucrats' staking out office buildings at night and clapping fines on executives who toil more than the current limit of 39 hrs. a week. It's against the law to work too hard in France--now even more...