Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favorite forms of competition was debating, which he did well. Another was football. Too small and slow to make the starting team in Fullerton or Whittier High School or at Whittier College, he showed up every day for practice in the line. "We used Nixon as a punching bag," one of his coaches recalled. "What starts the process, really," Nixon later said of his lifelong passion for winning, "are the laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. But if . . . your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence...
...Huskies didn't disappoint in the opening stanzas of the game, either. Paced by the solid mixed-bag pitching of Forneiro, the fourth man in the squad's rotation, Northeastern held the Crimson hitless through four innings...
...Moving to first base was not a big adjustment fielding-wise," Hochanaldel said. "I had to worry most about things that shortstops don't do, like my footwark around the bag, making the stretch and getting balls in the dirt...
...Sunday we bough a bag of tomatoes. On Wednesday e rediscovered them in a dark corner of the kitchen, dribbling weird liquids and seething with resentment like fat, red, neglected infants. We took them out of the bag to breathe, arranged them lovingly on the countertop, and immediately forgot them again. By Friday they were soft and bloated, and some had fuzzy black implosions in their yellowing skins...
...situation is in India, it is far worse in eastern Russia's taiga. The Amur tiger that inhabits this 800-mile-long stretch of evergreen forest nearly disappeared once before -- during the 1930s, when communist big shots would bag eight or 10 of the cats during a single hunt. But the state exercised iron control over the region, and when it decided to protect the tigers, their population recovered from roughly 30 to as many as 400 during the mid-1980s. Unfortunately for the Amur, tiger-bone prices began surging in the early 1990s, just when the fall...