Word: 218th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring them out of it. It is an atmosphere disease. It really is. They're drug-addicted losers...Football is not volleyball on the beach at Jones Beach in the summertime. There's a lot more to it than that. But it was miracle. It was a miracle on 218th St. It was going to be there...Then in the second half, anything they tried; they put their 11th string in, and still they were making yardage...
Perhaps some of them were remembering the old days, the glory days of Columbia football. I grew up about 5 minutes from the old Baker Field, and I remember it mostly for its decrepitude and the faded glamor of the brick gates that open onto 218th St. But my father, who grew up in our house 25 years earlier, remembers a time when kids from the neighborhood used to go across the river into Manhattan and sneak around the field until they found a way to creep in. You could see some of the best teams in the country, then...
Finally, he held his head for a moment and pressed the yes button on his electronic voting machine. As it turned out, he had cast the 218th, and decisive, vote for Reagan's tax bill. "It tore at my conservative guts to vote with people like Tip O'Neill and Dan Rostenkowski," Hartnett said afterward. "But it was the right thing...