Word: chokingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even know all the names. I knew Walter Payton's, of course. But I had to be introduced to (Defensive End) Dan Hampton." For turning the wrong way on a hand-off and missing an open receiver in the end zone, Flutie was toasted by his teammates with choke signs all around. But the spirit was amazingly warm. "When I first came into the huddle, everyone's head kind of popped up, and they all smiled as if to say, 'Here you go, kid.' " Since breaking his collarbone 17 months ago in the New Jersey Generals' final spring, Flutie...
...hope to return to the Fenway press box. My grades may suffer and I may go only to see my team choke as they have since 1918. But to be at Fenway from pre-game to game time to lights out, to watch sports writers change from joking critics to intense bearers of good or bad news, to possibly witness the transformation of my favorite team from chokers to world champions is well worth...
...this (trial) is the end of the Mafia," says Palermo Prosecutor Giusto Sciacchitano. "It wasn't born yesterday, and it may not end with this. You can't destroy the Mafia with just one trial." Nonetheless, Italian and U.S. authorities are optimistic that the Palermo trial will at least choke back some of the Syndicate's activities. "The New York and Sicilian trials are two sides of the same coin," says Sciacchitano. "We have had a continual swapping of help and information. We are prosecuting the same organization...
...knack for concocting and consuming entertainments that are quick, vivid, exuberant. Razzmatazz is a plentiful U.S. natural resource, like oil but with no OPEC competitors. Americans are pop-culture vultures, profligate in the money and time they devote to making themselves giggle and choke up on cue, ooh and aah en masse. Why is it that Americans make slick movies and snappy songs and every kind of TV show so relentlessly, so effectively, so -- well, well...
...reprimanded officers who abuse citizens. Last year she banned the use of the carotid ("sleeper") hold after a Portland policeman used the neck grip and inadvertently killed a black security guard who had no criminal record. Two officers responded to the ban by selling T shirts inscribed DON'T CHOKE 'EM. SMOKE 'EM. Harrington had the officers fired, but they were reinstated by an arbitrator...