Word: manful
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...great year for cracking codes, man's and nature's alike. The scientific high point of the year--if not of all intellectual history--was the decoding of human DNA, announced with much fanfare at the White House in late June by two scientists, J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins, whose agreement to share the credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed...
...performance ever seen." So said Maurice Greene before the male version of the 100 m. While not quite equal to his wish, the world-record holder ran a dramatic race, coming from third to catch the leaders at 60 m and then to pull away. The world's fastest man, usually brazen, cried openly during the medal ceremony...
More than merely "the man of a thousand faces," a designation first bestowed when he played eight characters, including a woman, in the 1949 comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, Sir Alec was the living embodiment of his many roles. A literate memoirist and self-effacing gentleman, he represented the quintessence of the British acting tradition...
Clayton Moore 85 After his Lone Ranger TV series ended in 1957, Moore continued as the masked man at rodeos, malls...
...Although census workers attempt to count every man, woman and child in America every ten years, a perfect count is unattainable, especially in the poor and urban areas that are traditionally Democratic. People get missed. And statistical sampling is how the Census Bureau makes...