Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...having a field day. Parrish already has three fouls and the officials are calling anyone who even contemplates making contact. The Celts turn the ball over 16 times this half and Philadelphia goes into the locker room with a six-point edge I head across the hall to play Donkey Kong and avoid announcer Gill Santos' inane babble...
...road between the Sinai and Tel Aviv, an Arab youth leading a donkey raised his fist and shouted: "In fire and blood, we shall free my Palestine." In the town of Yamit, Israeli settlers burned furniture and other belongings in a bonfire and cursed the Israeli government that was forcing them to leave their homes in the Sinai. On the West Bank, shaken by a month of violence, Arab youths continued to stone soldiers in ugly skirmishes protesting the Israeli occupation. On the Golan Heights, there was rifle fire as soldiers wounded four Druze Arabs who were demonstrating against...
...fortress-like apartment towers clustered on the once bare hills surrounding the city now extend to the very edge of the desert wilderness where Satan tempted Jesus; and though the walled Old City surrounding the holy shrines is still redolent of cinnamon and roasting lamb and hashish and donkey turds, the twisting alleys leading onto the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) are covered with paving stones rather than mud. Even the cats-Jerusalem has a remarkable quantity of cats-look content...
...world, as it was on the maps of the Middle Ages. As Holy Week starts on Palm Sunday, brown-robed Franciscan monks and white-robed Dominicans march in a long procession of the faithful, each with his own palm frond, along the route that Christ rode on his donkey from the village of Bethany up over the Mount of Olives, past the ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane and through St. Stephen's Gate into the Old City...
...full roster of ad-firm chieftains to "remind" Rozelle of their dedication. That dedication is measured in automotive industry advertisers-from cars to spark plugs to tires-who have supported the N.F.L. on television with an estimated $1 billion in commercials over the decades. "It was like whacking a donkey with a two-by-four," recalls Jones. "It got their attention." And their votes...