Word: brims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tomorrow, close to 70,000 Harvards and Yalies will fill the Yale Bowl nearly to the brim and spend the afternoon screaming at each other across the gridiron...
...problem stems from the size of this magnificent book, which is every bit as big and heavy as it has to be to accommodate hundreds of sumptuous reproductions. They too, of course, distract attention from the text: voluptuous nudes, enchanted gardens, glittering portraits and skies filled to the brim with sunlight. Dedicated readers will learn that Renoir's long life was not as serene and untroubled as the joy that shines from his canvases might suggest. That information is worth knowing, but examining these pictures is a greater reward...
Vinnie has better luck. Despite a preference for slim, elegant men, she be friends a retired engineer from Tulsa who tours London in Western boots, broad brim hat and plastic raincoat. The cow boy and the kiddie-lit professor make an odd couple, but they have much to offer each other. She helps him research his ancestry; he proves to be an intelligent observer and, in due course, a sensitive lover...
...still hit the fastest pitches in our league," suggests he will not quit at 40 at that. If his batting average was .230 for the season, a burst of Morgan's old self in the closing month filled his ego to at least an inch above the brim. "I'm the best 5-ft. 8-in. baseball player in history," he says. "You ain't five-eight," says Rose...
...Franklin Spinneys of this world are the type that President Reagan has asked us to emulate: honest, forthright and fiscally conservative. Yet the Reagan Administration tries to curb Government growth but encourages defense spending. Welfare is deplored, but military and industrial pork barrels are filled to the brim. It does not make sense...