Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brings back images of the great buffalo massacres of the 19th century. Since last October, Montana hunters have gunned down a record number of bison that have been roaming outside the bounds of fire-ravaged Yellowstone National Park, foraging on neighboring ranch and forest land. The state legislature made bison a big-game animal again in 1985, after game wardens had had to shoot 88 stray bison and hunters complained that the privilege should have been theirs...
Betty Mensh and Alan Freeman, Professors of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, wrote in the recent issue of Tikkun, "This ("We are not a minority') attitude is just another version of the assimilationist ploy that has been all too fateful for the Jews in the past...the vice of assimilation is that it is always superficial and fragile. Wouldn't it be better to abandon such a foolish enterprise, to give up on false security in order to regain dignity and self-respect...
...games ago, however, the Seattle Seahawks started swooning on third downs, and last week Buffalo coach Marv Levy suggested his Bills might also feign strategic injuries in the American Conference championship game. Fearing a sham, commissioner Pete Rozelle issued a fuzzy decree on "the spirit of the rules" and momentarily turned Wyche's ingenuity into an offsetting penalty. Cincinnati beat Buffalo anyway, 21-10, but the theme of Super Week was established. Some 2,200 journalists, double the U.S. press corps at the Moscow summit, will be concerned with ethics...
Woods scored on a pair of one-yard runs, while the Bengals' defense outperformed the vaunted Buffalo defense, holding the Bills to minus 12 yards in the third quarter and ending their only real drive of the second half with an interception in the end zone...
...edict before the game assured that the Bengals would not use a quick snap to draw a penalty against Buffalo for too many players on the field. Bills Coach Marv Levy had complained about such a tactic...