Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every day, many Harvard students pass Elsie's delicatessen on their way to and from classes. If anyone bothered to look above the awning that says "Delicious Roast Beef," they would notice the remnants of a sign that once read "Manter Hall School." Few of those who frequent Elsie's realize that the building above their heads has served as everything from a boys' prep school to a Harvard tutoring academy...
...whiff of the stuff can turn contemporary chili aficionados as lyrical as the 19th century chuckwagon cook. To the true believer, a sizzling chile con carne is manna from Montezuma, a concoction of beef, green peppers, herbs and other combustibles with an aroma, as the International Chili Society puts it, that "should generate rapture akin to a lover's kiss." As hot as the dish are the arguments that simmer around its preparation. Should a true chili include beans? Tomatoes? Corn meal? Onions? Is beef the best came? How many hours -or days-should it be cooked...
...that offensive line, anchored by Tom "da Beef" Benneditto--"the skinny man on the squad," Byrne says--and Bob "the Bear" Murray, have sent chills down the spines of other House defensive front fours...
...gawddamn shame to lose a gawddamn game because of that gawddamn call. I'm an infielder fielding the ball and he stands right in my way. If that's not interference, I'll ..." Indeed, the rulebook seems to support Boston's beef; section 7.09 (1) says unequivocally that a batter or runner should be called out automatically if "he fails to avoid a fielder who is attempting to field a batted ball...
...loved one is that there's nowhere to vent your frustration and rage, no one to ask why, no one to blame. If this were 1950, the pitcher who smashed his hand with a fastball might be blamed. After all, Vernon Ruhle looks like he'd be out castrating beef cattle for fun if he wasn't a relief pitcher for the Tigers. But the days of beanball wars are over: even the designated hitter rule, which theoretically lets pitchers zap people with impunity (they themselves don't have to bat), hasn't changed that. No, the ball must have...