Word: belonged
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...racked up the awards, it began to occur to me that it might be cool to actually belong to the organization that supplied all those patches. Fortunately, my parents talked me out of it. I'm older and wiser now, and I know that the NRA is effectively a massive special interest group that lobbies to keep access to guns free and easy. I know that one of their officials referred to government agents last year as "jack-booted thugs." I know that they have millions of members and strong influence in Congress. But I still don't understand...
...Crimson holds its destiny in its own hands, and if it can send the Bears into hibernation early for the winter, the Ivy League championship and the automatic NCAA tournament bid that comes with it will belong solely to Harvard...
...reward for Torre after 37 years in baseball. In order to win his first World Series, the 56-year-old native New Yorker did something truly extraordinary--he gave the Yankees back their identity. They are no longer George Steinbrenner's team, though he still owns them. They now belong to Pettitte and Joe Girardi and Bernie Williams, the way the Yankees once belonged to Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle. Actually, Steinbrenner no longer has to move Yankee Stadium. Torre and his team have already done...
Just for a moment, I could see the Braves moving back to Boston, where they belong. The players are trotting north on the interstate, as calmly as if they'd all been ordered to the outfield for some stretching drills. Behind them, stumbling in an effort to keep up, a pack of Atlanta boosters are shouting, "Hey, wait a minute...just a second now...you can't do this...this is a world-class city...
Their reasons for leaving vary. Bob Dole (R-Kans.) stepped down because he wants to be President. Fourteen of the incumbent seats being vacated in the House belong to those (all men) who wanted to run for the Senate--seven Republicans, seven Democrats. (Four of them did not survive the primary...