Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cots. Elizabeth Martinez brought her two toddlers, ages 1 and 2, to an armory in Harlem. Said she: "They were getting sick with colds and fever all the time. My little one's hands were green and frozen from the cold. The water was frozen in the toilet bowl...
Workaholic Eagles vs. ragtag Raiders in the Super Bowl...
...very determined man. The managing general partner of the Oakland Raiders was one of the architects of the American Football League. As A.F.L. commissioner in 1966, he put together the merger that stopped a disastrous bidding war with the N.F.L. and led to the creation of the Super Bowl...
...Sunday, Vermeil and Davis will square off for Super Bowl XV in New Orleans. Each brings with him a team that mirrors his own personality. Vermeil's Eagles, this year's N.F.C. champions, are the inheritors of his pay-any-price work ethic, a squad with no well-known stars that has been forged into an efficient football machine. The Oakland Raiders, the A.F.C. champions, are a reflection of Davis and the old A.F.L., a collection of castoffs and young players who manage, with guile and grinding tenacity, to survive in spite of the odds. In a Super...
...when the Eagles last played for an N.F.L. championship, there was no Super Bowl, the A.F.L. was in its first season, and the indestructible Chuck Bednarik was on the field for the full 60 minutes, playing center on offense and linebacker on defense. The Eagles won their game against Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers. But the Philadelphia franchise quickly fell from glory. After a decade and a half near the cellar, Owner Leonard Tose brought in a hard-eyed young coach from U.C.L.A. to revive the team...