Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarterback whom Williams understudied, last year's young pro bowler Jay Schroeder, 26, was demoted, reinstated and then finally shelved this season in one of the most dramatic reversals of form in league history. Reports that the Redskin players were muttering for Williams on the sidelines have been denied, but he does say, "I've had a lot of encouragement from the guys on this team, white, black or whatever. They respect me." His completion percentage against the Vikings was ghastly (nine of 26), but as the citizens of Denver will agree, the result is what counts...
...grandfather was a bowler, owned his own ball and belonged to a league. Oddly, I remember his ball well. It was black with yellow speckles and looked like a large egg. Perhaps that's what attracted me to the ball--the possibility that it might give birth, at any moment, to a huge bird...
...mother, too, was a poor bowler and frequently sent the ball skidding toward the sides of the alley. Once, she flung the ball so hard into the gutter that it sprung out and knocked down a few pins. Amazed, she yelled, "Fantastic...
Almost since the London Exchange was founded in 1801, the City's bowler- hatted business culture has flourished in a cozy world of old-line brokerage and investment houses that enjoyed both fixed commissions and an oligopolistic grip on various financial functions. Until Big Bang occurs, for example, only six firms are allowed to act as jobbers in British Treasury bonds, known locally as gilts. This comfortable arrangement, however, did not sit well with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who feared that London was losing ground to low-cost, high-volume centers like Wall Street. In 1983 her aides negotiated...
...rumble of drums, the piping of flutes echoed through the warm summer twilight. Hundreds upon hundreds of men in bowler hats and orange sashes marched through the north of Belfast, their bright silken banners gilded by the setting sun. As the Sunday-suited men strode past, to the tune of their stirring ancestral anthem, The Sash, a British army helicopter hovered overhead and riot police stood guard before the 20-ft.-high screens they had just erected. Later that evening, 22 miles away, another group of men in tribal orange filed through the village of Downpatrick and gathered...