Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playing this game don't look at the bottom right corner of the board. There lies a morbid reminder of one of the most severe cancers eating at the heart of this great nation of ours...
...games left in the tournament, Coach Bill Fitch was already invoking General Custer, and 7-ft. 4- in. Ralph Sampson, who caught an elbow instead of a break, had a seam of sorrowful stitches sewn along one cheek. "It's been so long since our team has had the bottom drop out," said Fitch. "The best basketball doesn't always come after you've been embarrassed like that." In the sweltering state of the old Garden, he need not have mentioned that "our running game disappeared...
...divisive outcome was perhaps inevitable. Many of the African delegates had arrived anticipating the "tangible, measurable, manageable decisions" demanded by the forum chairman, President Abdou Diouf of Senegal. Western delegates, on the other hand, had expected a freewheeling discussion of medium- and long-term strategies that would have no bottom line. Ray Love of the U.S. Agency for International Development defined the session's goal as "a clear agreement between the Africans and the donors on the key problems and key priorities for investment...
...oversee the shuttle redesign, and has already appointed other outsiders to review the agency's management. On his return to his old post, he says, he was surprised to discover that top officials "didn't seem to be talking to each other." He intends to "get to the bottom" of the communications problem. As for the impending Rogers report, Fletcher expects that "it will be pretty harsh...
...went Malcolm White's week. When he was not looking for music, he was looking for food: hot tamales, crawfish, gumbo, red beans and rice, barbecue, barbecued shrimp. On a dirt road to nowhere, he stopped at a place called Booga Bottom Store and was served, by a waitress named Heardacine Kemp, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, crowder peas, sliced tomatoes, corn bread and iced tea. There was no menu; you simply sat and accepted the day's fare. "Mississippi," said White. "God love...