Word: crave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...players may be self-absorbed, but fans crave an understanding of how it feels to play this child's game for a living. Perhaps the best recent glimpse of baseball's inner life can be found in The 26th Man by Steve Fireovid (Macmillan; $18.95), a poignant journal of the 1990 season by a career minor-league pitcher still dreaming of one more cup of coffee in the big leagues. The story line is simple and honest: Fireovid, then 33, a righthander who gets by more on guile than God-given talent, posts the second best earned- run average...
Police took extraordinary steps to warn addicts, cruising blighted neighborhoods in squad cars. "If you have used this drug," they announced over their loudspeakers, "seek medical attention immediately!" Ironically, these efforts may have led addicts to crave it all the more. "Hard-core users ask how they could get hold of it. They figure those who died made a mistake," says Christopher Policano, a spokesman at Phoenix House, a drug rehabilitation center...
...often been said that sport is the modern lightning rod for the tribal loyalties once stirred by war. If so, it may not be surprising that war should be covered like sport, with tub-thumping emphasis on how one- sidedly the home team will win. But sports fans crave the illusion of a guaranteed future. In war, misguided optimism can be as dangerous as any other stray missile...
...only are divorced women left with unequal responsibility for raising their children, but they also face a marginal social life and a small chance for remarriage. The prevalence of divorce (the rate is 50 percent) does not reduce the "tainted" image of Hungarian divorcees. Both unmarried and divorced men crave young, virginal wives and think themselves failures if they don't succeed in acquiring...
...average chocolate candy bar melts at 78 degrees F. The average day in the Saudi Arabian desert can peak at a toasty 120 degrees. Result: a sticky problem for G.I.s who crave a little chocolate as they wage a waiting war along the Saudi-Iraqi border. Last week Pennsylvania's Hershey Foods launched an all-out offensive against the candy-killing climate of the Middle East. Its secret weapon: 144,000 Desert Bars. Designed to meet the Army's demand for "heat-resistant" milk chocolate, the Desert Bar approximates the flavor of its home-front cousins, while standing...