Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took considerably less time: Harvard covered 46 yards in two plays. First, Ferrara whizzed the ball past two defenders to hit a crossing Skelton, who then advanced the ball 39 yards down the right side of the field. Then, Ferrara sagely hit junior tight end Matt Gargulinski on a button-hook in the end zone. The Crimson...
...ballots. Already, Democratic candidates have been spooked by high Republican turnout in the primaries -- and low turnout among Democrats. "The Republican base vote is more motivated than ours this year," said Donald Sweitzer, political director of the Democratic National Committee. "We don't have a lot of sexy, hot- button issues...
...players respect this type of behavior. While they don't exactly fear him, they don't want to get chewed out by him either. Amazingly, the players respect this man with his shorts pulled over his belly button and a monstrous, beer belly...
Although Carnesale's "Too Hard" box was empty, the administrator seemed somewhat frazzled. A black overcoat button sat atop a cherry table in his office, presumably waiting to be reattached to the jacket of the busy provost...
What instructive lessons could be derived from this outrage, this tragedy, this affront to the button-down proprieties of the 1950s? Surely something was revealed here about American materialism. Or the cynicism of its media masters. Or perhaps the gullible neediness of the public, yearning to identify with a guy who somehow managed to be smart, cute and lucky at once, just the way we all want...