Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soccer requires little equipment, other than a pair of shoes. Everybody believes he can play soccer. And it can be played by any number of players as a pickup game. Thus soccer outside North America is truly a game for the masses, which can identify with its passions, its sudden triumphs and its inevitable disillusionments. Baseball and football are an exaltation of the human experience; soccer is its incarnation...
...Pele at his peak only once, at the final of the World Cup in 1970. Brazil's opponent was Italy, which played its tough defense coupled with sudden thrusts to tie the game 1-1, demoralizing the Brazilians. Italy could very easily have massed its defense even more, until its frantic opponent began making the mistakes that would encompass its ruin. But, led by Pele, Brazil paid no attention. Attacking as if the Italians were a practice team, the Brazilians ran them into the ground...
President Neil L. Rudenstine puts it best: "All of a sudden, the world is a completely new ball game...
...March 27, 1999: The Harvard women's hockey team defeated UNH 6-5 in overtime in the AWCHA national championship game. Co-captain A.J. Mleczko '97-'99 assisted Jennifer L. Botterill '02 with the game-winner at 8:01 of the sudden-death period. The win gave the team its first national title since...
...This is a profoundly transformative moment in higher education in America," Rudenstine says. "Since 1970 at least, the system has been built and the fundamental structure has not shifted in any significant way...All of a sudden, the world is a whole new ballgame...