Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best interests" of baseball with constraints on his power to deprive an owner of his property rights over a $200 million franchise like the Yankees. Steinbrenner's transgression was giving $40,000 to admitted gambler Howie Spira. The money was almost certainly payment for Spira to delve for dirt on Dave Winfield (now with the California Angels), whom the Boss publicly plotted against from the moment he signed the star rightfielder to a 10-year contract in 1980. If this sounds confusing, take comfort that the commissioner saw in Steinbrenner "a pattern of behavior that borders on the bizarre...
McCartney's latest release, Flowers in the Dirt, was modestly successful, and produced one Top-10 hit, "My Brave Face," and the little-known but solid "We Got Married." But strangely enough, the first Paul McCartney world tour since 1976 began almost a year after the album's release. McCartney obviously wasn't counting on the strength of his recent work to draw his overwhelmingly middle-aged crowd...
...places I've visited where a strong social fabric continues to bind a community together. Women walk their children through town and say "hi" to everyone they meet. Men gather in the evening on a porch and talk. Children ride their bicycles up and down the dirt roads. Though I can not accept their values, I envy their sense of community. And I can thank them for letting me--briefly--into their lives...
Lying facedown in the dirt -- the place where young men netted by the Los Angeles police department's vaunted antigang sweeps frequently wind up -- Javier Gonzalez, 18, watched in terror as an officer slammed Lewayne Williamson's head into the ground. "The cop asked if he was in a gang. Lewayne said no and was hit," Gonzalez recalls. "He said no again and was hit again. By the time they got to me, five or six people had already been whacked." Fearful of being beaten, Gonzalez blurted yes when asked if he was a gang member. Over the next...
...earthquake, which measured as high as 7.7 on the Richter scale, turned scores of towns into wastelands of flattened houses and apartment buildings. Entire villages were reduced to rubble, their inhabitants buried beneath mountains of debris. Television film showed young men frantically trying to free victims from slides of dirt and the remains of homes. Women in black chadors clustered in town squares, fearful of returning home or lacking a home to return to. Children wept among the dead and the injured. Amid the debris lay abandoned toys, clothing and shoes...