Word: clawingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...knack for academic decorum (administrators at the museum wish the rubber stamp could say, I DON'T GIVE A DARN WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS). He disdains intellectual showboating, describing his own tyrannosaurus as a "media specimen," valuable mainly because it will bring the fang-and-claw set into the museum to see really important stuff, like duckbills tending their offspring. His manner is casual and laconic, which fits with the scraggly beard, the sneakers and the bush hat. But when a volunteer presents some fossils he has gathered, Horner handles them attentively. Then he peers from under his domed brow...
Decidely genius is the farcical scene in which Huml's haunts literally come crashing down upon his head. This scene is a flawless creation of sound and slapstick. Carefully choreographed characters clomp up stairs, slam doors, charge and claw the professor while screeching lines like, "You're not just trying to jolly along the fish, are you?" The laughter evinced in this scene alone would guarantee the work a place as a comic success...
...bright spot for Harvard was a 15-9, 15-7 belting of Brown. In the victory, the Crimson played relatively well, though they almost let the Bruins claw back into the first game--allowing seven straight points before putting them on formaldehyde...
...southern Iowa, where they don't need irrigation water and where the black loam used to stretch like a carpet from horizon to horizon, you top a hill and find the brown claw marks of a monster that has scoured off the land's precious mantle, leaving the gummy, less productive clay showing in streaks. The monster is erosion, brought on by poor farming...
Okay, so it makes no sense, but the best man...er...robot usually won. The most effective strategy was to get to the puck first and pin it against the boards, while opponents fruitlessly tried to check the winning robot off the puck and get a claw...