Word: doves
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...Trust." Later this year the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear an appeal from the city of Zion, Ill., which was ordered by a lower court to scrap the city seal, consisting of a ribbon with the words "God Reigns" and a shield containing a dove, sword, crown and Latin cross. The device was adopted in 1902. The city argues that the seal is mainly a historical artifact, recalling the founding of the city by the Christian Catholic Church...
...early days of radio. The time is the mid-'30s, the place is Studio B of Station WLT, Minneapolis. There is a jinx on Studio B, "the snakebite studio at WLT, the tomb of the radio mummy . . . Dad Benson gasped for breath during Friendly Neighbor and two huge flies dove into his throat and almost choked him . . . Reed Seymour once got the hiccups in there so bad his partial plate came off and he had to gum the news. And a week later, three of the Shepherd Boys, a gospel quartet, < slipped in and quietly de-pantsed him during...
Yale then converted another third down opportunity on a Crawford keeper that put the Elis on the seven yard line with goal to go. Two plays later, halfback Chris Kouri dove over the top for the oneyard touchdown, less than four minutes into The Game...
...play, in particular, remains unbelievable. With the ball on the Harvard 19, Giardi tossed the ball to Hirsch who was breaking right across the middle. The junior dove forward, extended his left arm to the ball, and pulled it in before crashing to the ground...
There has never been any question about Mark Helprin's talent, and since his first books of fiction, A Dove of the East and Refiner's Fire, he has seemed on the point of accomplishing marvels. He has also seemed -- notably in Winter's Tale, an overblown fantasy starring an annoying magical horse -- to be a posturer incapable of modulating eloquence or intensity, a too appreciative taster of his own words, a gifted windbag...