Word: overshadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike the earlier games this season, the crowd and band were loud enough to overshadow the opponent's cheers...
...Russian Mars probe is falling! The Russian Mars probe is falling! The prospect of the stricken plutonium-powered spacecraft's raining down on Down Under brought back memories of the U.S. Skylab's shower of pieces over the area in 1979 and threatened to overshadow President Clinton's visit to Australia last week. Fortunately, the probe crashed harmlessly in the South Pacific. But don't stop looking up yet: the earth's skies remain heavily laden with space junk. In the next 60 days, the U.S. Space Command estimates, four orbiting objects possibly large enough to survive re-entry will...
...quadrennial immersion in the ridiculous that is the American election campaign tends to overshadow the occasional eruption of the sublime in our national life. Yet three such eruptions have occurred this year. All three will be remembered long after the name William Jefferson Clinton (let alone Dick Morris) has taken its historical place alongside Rutherford B. Hayes. All three are independent enterprises. Yet all three, remarkably, point in the same stunning direction--to the existence of life in space...
...admittance of Native Americans to the College appears to be a bright spot in Harvard's history. But we should not let this instance of inclusion overshadow the University's long history of exclusion. As Native American Program director Lorie Graham said, "The plaque is just a small piece of the story that needs to be told." Building a monument to Native American alumni is a good first step, but we've only just begun...
...political label. His endorsement of Bob Dole, said Buchanan, will hinge on the GOP platform, the tone of convention speakers and the choice of a pro-life Republican vice-presidential nominee. If the Dole camp does not secure an endorsement from Buchanan before the convention, he may try to overshadow the less theatrical GOP presidential nominee by leading a delegate protest, and may well damage his party in the process, says TIME's John Dickerson. "Buchanan alone in a hotel room can put on a better show than the GOP," says Dickerson. "What Dole and the Republicans don't want...