Word: beater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia connected on a 30-ft. buzzer-beater to make the final score...
Even the Tigers, however, should pose no threat it the netwomen Princeton has lost to UNC--whom Harvard finished in treat of in tournament play--and Virginia, whom Harvard has beater...
...three-ring extravaganza. As if the local color of Imperial Russia and a weird group of invading performers were not enough, obscure allusions begin clamoring for attention. One of the star acts in Colonel Kearney's circus is "Lamarck's Educated Apes." This Monsieur Lamarck is a wife beater and a drunk; he also bears the name of the French naturalist whose theory of evolution through the transmission of acquired learning was overturned by Darwinism. So the new Lamarck's chimps get smart enough to dump him and demand a new, better contract. Before the possible significance of this liberating...
...play's denouement comes with the arrival of Sister Mary's former students who returned for a reunion of sorts. The group reads like a Laundry list of Catholic casualties-an unwed mother, an agnostic who's had two abortions, a homosexual and an alcoholic wife beater who constantly wets his pants. The students, who all blame their problem on Sister Mary's repressive dogma have come to embarrass her. In the course of their confrontation, the nun shoots two of her students and chases another away, while the fourth is held at gunpoint despite his pleas that...
...manifested itself on both sides of the Atlantic. In London, an obese Mrs. Guppy became celebrated for making specters tangible, including one Abdullah, who, the malicious said, was a small man hidden from the audience in her voluminous petticoats. Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, became a drum beater for spiritualism. He too pronounced the Fox sisters genuine; when shown photographs of young girls playing with tiny winged creatures, he concluded that the pictures were incontrovertible evidence that fairies did indeed exist...