Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Perry, Bol is a player basically in training who the Bullets hope will block a few shots as he goes. "He has had a binding effect," says Bob Ferry, the general manager who drafted Bol in the second round. "Unconsciously, and sometimes consciously, even 'team' players seldom worry about anyone else as much as themselves. But Manute has been a focal point of selflessness. They love him." So, it appears, do the fans at every station...
That one--a 93-year-old building at 8-10 Mt. Auburn St.--has been a major stumbling block in an otherwise fast-paced trek towards rosier town-gown relations and cooperative constuction and development...
Crimson goalie Denise Katsias had five saves in the first half--including a charging block of Tiger midfielder Cara Gottardi's rocket from 10 feet at 9:43. But neither she nor Taylor--who made a diving try--could get to forward Sue Gouchoe's scoop off a corner pass that flew into the left corner of the Harvard goal with 16 minutes left in the first half...
...salamander angle gained credibility the following day when another pipe bomb critically injured Hofmann as he was climbing into his parked car half a block from Salt Lake City's Temple Square. In the Toyota's blackened interior, investigators found pipes and other equipment for bomb manufacture, as well as rare books and valuable documents relating to the Mormon Church. Hofmann, it seemed, had accidentally set off a bomb of his own making. After eight hours of surgery, Hofmann, who was expected to survive, maintained from his hospital bed that he was a target, not an assailant. But police...
...believable religious zeal which Roberts gives his character. Truly, he is what Kubrick had in mind in Dr. Strangelove with the solemn declaration "You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company." He permits no distractions, such a sexy secretary (Greta Scacchi) or a revolutionary waiter, to block his quest for constant innovation He does however make time for children, old ladies, and animals in distress, which shows that underneath his corporate exterior exists something more human...