Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.F.L. The preeminent college football player of 1985 -- Auburn's "Bo" Jackson -- has gone to baseball. If the football scouts are right about Jackson's being a "bigger and stronger O.J. Simpson," and the baseball scouts are right about his "Mantle-like speed and power" and "Clemente-like throwing arm," then both sports have been significantly affected by the small events of an Alabama childhood that led to this unlikely choice...
...understatement to say there was very little humor in the Nixon White House, and much of what there was was inadvertent." For example: Nixon's comments to reporters at the Great Wall of China ("It's truly a great wall"), to a motorcycle policeman who had just broken his arm and leg in an accident at the head of a presidential motorcade ("How do you like your job?"), to French dignitaries gathered for the & funeral of Charles de Gaulle ("It's a great day for Paris"). Buchwald noted that the presidency always provides good material. "Just when you think there...
...seen as a warm, relaxed human being with a twinkle-in-the-eye approach to himself is just too good an opportunity to miss," said Bob Orben, a leading gag writer and author of many of Ford's best lines. "Humor reaches out, puts a warm, affectionate arm around an audience and says, 'I am one of you. I understand you.' If you can laugh together, you can vote together...
...images and events during the elections and the revolution are deeply etched in the memory of our people and give inspiration to the other nations of the world: men and women linked arm to arm guarding the ballot boxes; computer technicians hired by the government to do the official count walking out of the fraudulent tabulation; tens of thousands of men and women, with their children about them, in vigil, half in fear, half in joy, guarding with their bodies the small detachment of rebel soldiers; nuns kneeling in the path of oncoming tanks; a nation rising...
...senior looked quite confident on Harvard's running plays on Saturday and was particularly adept on the option. He also showed an accurate arm on short, quick-developing passes...