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Word: 13s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strike in the past 358 years, not one, can claim to be as ludicrous as the current work stoppages bedeviling professional sports. In baseball and hockey, multimillionaire owners have been pleading impending poverty. On the other side, players, some of whom are also multimillionaires, stamp their size 13s and demand a bigger share of the pie. It's the rich vs. the megarich in a spectacle almost as distasteful to watch as the intramurals among the wackos of the House of Windsor. If there are principles involved, and both sides swear there are, they do not make sense to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confederacy of Fools | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

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