Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words anyway, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth made a direct plea to every major league player last week to volunteer for urinalysis. Throughout an unusual address, as amazing as any ever delivered in the cause of image repair, alarm bells were ringing: "Baseball is on trial." "Baseball is in trouble." "A cloud called drugs is permeating our game." "The shadow is growing larger and darker by the day." "Stop this menace." At risk and at stake are "a generation of kids" and "a decade of baseball being synonymous with drugs." "We cannot let the season conclude without attacking the problem." "This...
...This message," said Mason, "is a sort of soft cloud because it depends upon the behavior of many. It asks some sacrifice." He ended his remarks with a plea for society "to act diligently and rapidly to end this epidemic...
...team dead and buried at halftime...we rendered a great quarterback to a very, very ineffective person. We took away their offense. Our defense played magnificently. [Harvardrunning back Robert] Santiago wasn't even in the game. It's a throwback to the woes of 25 years. The first black cloud comes along, everybody jumps in a rabbit hole. There just has to be a composure aspect. I looked in the eyes on the sideline and I saw different people. I saw different body language on the sideline. I saw the quarterback become totally unravelled. We went on a 60-play...
...when the storm system that later spawned Hurricane Elena darkened the sky and began pelting Cape Canaveral with rain shortly before launch time. But NASA officials were determined to make this one good. Stretching the agency's own rules, which forbid blast-offs in the rain or through clouds that could generate lightning, they spotted a thinned-out area of clouds overhead and ordered a launch. As Discovery burned its way into the mist, Commander Joe Engle laconically described his surroundings: "That's a black cloud...
...weekend began, he needed only three more to break it. The young Met fireballer, Dwight Gooden, a 20-game winner at the age of 20, was prompting comparisons with the greatest pitchers of the past. But the drug disclosures could not help putting the game under a cloud. Not since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, when eight Chicago White Sox players admitted taking bribes from gamblers to fix the World Series, has the national pastime suffered such a loss of public esteem...