Word: connor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nodding in the audience at the American Bar Association meeting last week signaled not only widespread sympathy but weary familiarity. Ever since he became Chief Justice nearly 14 years ago, Burger has been arguing that the high bench is overworked, and only hours before, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor had become the sixth court member publicly to sound an alarm...
...readers discerned, in his vast output, a sense of the author's bedrock beliefs. The tales followed a bumbling, intuitive priest who understood evil more profoundly than any policeman. Chesterton said he based the character on the qualities he found in a real priest, Father John O'Connor, but Brown was, in fact, an idealized projection of his creator...
...five-game Beanpot career. "My years in the Beanpot the team didn't really play that well," he says. "Who knows the reason? My first two years we had a young team, but last year we had 12 seniors." As for the infamous "choke" rap on the Eagles. O'Connor doesn't deny it outright. "Everyone blames Len Ceglarski, but there are 25 guys out there...
...support in the crucial spots? "We've always had trouble scoring," he notes. "Our forte was our defense. We figured if we could keep them down to less than three goals per game we'd usually win." The problem was that the Eagles managed just five goals in O'Connor's three finals. And if there's one thing you can count on, he points out, it's that "you always meet hot goaltending in the Beanpot"--at both ends. Three times O'Connor played superbly and three times other goalies stole the limelight--first Demetroulakas, then Lau and Daskalakis...
Even after coming so frustratingly close three years in a row, O'Connor wasn't tempted by a fourth chance. "I would've loved to have won the Beanpot," he says. "But we've lost so many times...the odds would be against us again...