Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much a case of my hopping on the bandwagon to support the Twins in the series. In elementary school, I sat through rainy games in the old Met stadium. In high school I took home a red, white and blue Twins jacket, the weight of a plastic bag, after watching a losing game in the Dome. And I would keep on the monotone of losing games on t.v. while doing my homework...
Everyone should empathize with our problematic Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. I remember the arguments against building the dome years ago--mainly that spectating in the dome would be like sitting in an inflated hefty bag, that could pop any time. (They were right, and under the weight of a heavy snow cover, the roof has caved...
...huddled under two quilts, a sleeping bag and a wool blanket--dressed in a sweatshirt, jeans and two pairs of socks--I thought of calling our hapless flunky again, but decided against it. If the University cannot figure out that rooms get cold when the temperature dips into the 30s, can it be expected to turn on the heat--all the while adhering to its procedural requirements--at some ungodly hour of the morning...
...last week, the silver-tongued son of East Cambridge was trying to raise the bill. "It's up to you," he told City Manager Healy, who is used to serving in the role of punching bag on Monday nights...
...framers of the Bill of Rights surely had loftier disputes in mind. But last week a federal judge in Denver invoked the First Amendment guarantee of free speech in ruling that calling someone a "sleaze bag" who "slimed up from the bayou" does not constitute slander. When Football Coach Darrel ("Mouse") Davis used those words to describe Sports Agent J. Harrison Henderson III, he was free to express his opinion, according to Judge Jim Carrigan. The judge dismissed a suit for at least $12 million in damages that Henderson had filed against Davis and two newspapers that printed the remark...