Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dramatic moments of the play. Tense and serious moments are delivered with the same frenetic energy as humorous ones. At one point Bobby, as fed up with Rob's hackneyed moralizing and witless witticisms as we are, goes on a rampage in which he brings the play's quick pace to a grinding halt--at least it reads this way in the text. Yet Rainey delivers the speech with the same monochromatic, sugar-high intensity that characterizes most of Bobby's delivery. The result is an indeterminate dramatic haze that kills moments of potential power...
...wasn't right to waste money," says the chain-smoking Schott. "When I see someone cheat for two bucks it makes me want to throw up." She was devastated by the conviction of former Reds manager Pete Rose for tax evasion, but it has not slowed her pace one whit...
...always been preferred. Nowadays technology also plays a role: fetal testing procedures, such as amniocentesis and sonograms, are employed by women in China, Korea, India and elsewhere to detect the sex of a fetus. Many mothers will abort a female. "Over the past century science has only quickened the pace of the death of the female child, from the born to the unborn stage," says Meenu Sondhi, an amniocentesis researcher at Delhi University...
...first place in the A-division for most of the regatta. However, the B-division support that had helped carry Harvard all year proved to be Harvard's Achilles heel in the weekend's races. Skipper John Dickson and crews Jen Drohan and Alex Barker could not keep pace with their competition, sinking Harvard into seventh...
...Green kept pace by dropping Columbia in Hanover, N.H., Saturday, 34-20. Princeton joined Penn at 2-3 in the Ivies by bouncing the Quakers by the same score...