Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international competition isn't unusual for Stanley, who last year played on the 12-and-under World Junior circuit--a tour that included stops at the Junior Italian Open, the Junior Italian Open, the Junior Wimbledon championships, and the Junior U.S. Open...
Critics also charge that Richardson, who has lived and worked in Washington D.C. for 15 years, would not adequately serve local interests. A recent editorial in the Worcester Telegram dryly suggested, "If Richardson can tear himself away from the Georgetown circuit for Massachusetts, let him pour his energies into rebuilding the Republican party here. Let him throw his support behind an announced Republican [Shamie] who has a realistic change now of election to the Senate...
...have got involved. But even if Jimmy were ever to come back here, I don't think he would do it differently. It's just not part of his makeup." Perhaps it is part of hers, to judge from her warmth and ease on the book-party circuit. As she wrote at the end of her memoirs, "I would be out there campaigning right now if Jimmy would run again. I miss the world of politics...
...city fought back. The next day a circuit court judge issued a restraining order which temporarily prevented the Colts from completing their move or playing anywhere else but in Baltimore--the first step in the effort to recapture the team under the legal doctrine of eminent domain. But locking the barn door did little good, the colt was gone and legal precedent favored Irsay. In the past year a California federal court has twice ruled in favor of Al Davis, owner of the Raiders, who challenged the NFL constitution and the city of Oakland when he moved his team from...
...gets credit for coining the name of a ubiquitous computer phenomenon: the bug. In August 1945, while she and some associates were working at Harvard on an experimental machine called the Mark I, a circuit malfunctioned. A researcher using tweezers located and removed the problem: a 2-in. long moth. Hopper taped the offending insect into her logbook. Says she: "From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...