Word: backups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Presidents are partly known by their vacations. Summer in a place where your arrival does not cause a one-hour traffic backup (as happened in Kennebunkport), does not subsume the town (Plains), doesn't fit (Nixon in wing tips on the beach in California) -- or where summer is used as a verb. Your preference for intellectual retreats with friends during Christmas vacation to discuss enterprise zones should give way to the real thing: find a lazy cottage on a lake near Hot Springs, Arkansas, where you can relax...
...Backup split end Ed Kmak was wide open in the left corner of the end zone, but Hetherington overthrew the ball. Kmak leaped and caught the pass but landed out of bounds as the horn sounded...
...Mills's backup, sophomore Chris Heatherington, has thrown six interceptions while completing only 11 of 39 passes for 111 yards...
...start to finish, a perfect act, and a perfect parody of a rock concert. We ate it up. Dean thrashed his head in headbanger circles as he played. Gene wandered to the rear of the stage and set up his microphone. "I'm doin' backup vocals on this one," he explained. They did "Tick," noisier and faster than the album's version. They did "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree," with more vocal tricks by Gene. They did songs nobody knew, and songs everybody was requesting. They talked to the audience the whole time. We talked back...
Villiotte says that Fair "seems to like it alot" in goal, and that she is comfortable with herrole as a backup on this year's team...