Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today at 5:30 p.m., Don Sweeney, the surprise of the Boston Bruins pre-season camp, will play his first regular-season NHL game...
...Bruin camp, Sweeney had to compete with five veteran defensemen, including Gord Kluzak, Glen Wesley and Michael Thelven. Some thought Sweeney was headed back to Maine...
...Dukakis camp was simultaneously overconfident and overly defensive. There was the blustery insistence that the threadbare good-jobs-at-good-wages themes of the primaries would work against Bush, combined with the insecure reluctance to reach out to battle-tested Democrats who had worked for other candidates. There was virtually no planning, no ability to respond to Bush's attacks, and logistics out of the whistle-stop era. Dukakis would have to work until after midnight revising a speech he had just received for the next morning's breakfast event. All too often the candidate would take wooden prose...
...flight back to Boston, press secretary Dayton Duncan celebrated with a slug of bourbon: "We made the evening news." This, admittedly, was a paltry triumph for the nominee of a major party in September, but it conveys the dire mood that had prevailed in the Dukakis camp and the elation over the shifts that were under way. "This is not brain surgery," said Francis O'Brien, a Sasso recruit to the campaign. "Republicans have done it well for years...
...wildest races of the week were the women's 400 free and the men's 4 X 200 freestyle relay. The first belonged to Janet Evans, teasingly called "Princess" by the swim-team staff because of her occasionally imperious ways. She developed a crick in her neck at training camp in Hawaii, doubtless, it was said, because of a pea under her mattress. In Seoul, she complained, the team had to walk (she pronounced the unfamiliar word with distaste) to practice. Biondi said, trying to sound as if he believed it, that Evans owes her success to her "little skinny...