Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such August fantasies were not to be, not in Cleveland, Ohio, nor anywhere else in the green cathedrals of what Annie Savoy in Bull Durham called "the Church of Baseball." The 1994 major league season may have ended for good late Thursday night in Oakland, California, with the sadly appropriate third strike as A's pinch hitter Ernie Young whiffed on a fast ball from strikeout king Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners. With that final, futile swing, the national pastime went down for the count as the more than 750 members of the Major League Players Association began their...
With a cast that features Susan Sarandon ("Bull Durham," "Thelma and Louise") and Tommy Lee Jones '69 ("The Fugitive"), along with a terrific debut performance from 10-year-old Tennessee street kid Brad Renfro, it would seem that Schumacher couldn't go wrong. Nevertheless, the director's painfully close adherence to the Grisham script fails to inspire...
...Anti-Semitism was part of our society...There was a lot of self-selection offriends," says A. Leroy Atherton Jr. '44-43. "Itwasn't was that overt, but being not Jewishmyself, and having sat in on bull sessions...Iheard ethnic jokes...
...month, when Clinton attends the G-7 economic summit in Naples. But just preparing for the trip has been a tonic for Clinton. Aides admit that until recently he focused on overseas problems only as they arose; for the past month or so, he has had special foreign policy bull sessions on Thursday or Friday to anticipate problems before they crop up. And he has immersed himself with characteristic intensity in preparing for the bilateral meetings as well as the ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Rome and France. As usual, the immersion has paid...
...abuser's commander often isn't sympathetic to the battered spouse, according to Sadonna Polhill, who is the top caseworker at the Killeen shelter. "They'll tell the wife, 'This is a bunch of bull---- quit making these accusations because you're ruining your husband's career,' " she says. "They try to make the one who's being battered at fault." Anxiety over their husbands' careers has led to a sharp drop in the number of women -- from 85% to 50% over the past two years -- who permit the shelter's staff to alert military officials to the women...