Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SIXTY YEARS AGO TODAY in The Crimson: "Opposing participation in war under any circumstance," 30 out of 74 present at the meeting of the Debating Union last night went on record as pacifistic after aspirited discussion in which the minority used pugnacious methods of argument to express its pacifistic principles...
...Angeles Herald Examiner, "I'm worrying about my values. Right now I'm a guy having a lot of trouble handling this. I've had times today when I wanted to give it all up. When I decided to sign with the [Los Angeles] Express, it was late. I had promised to give them an answer within a certain time frame. I'd been up for two days straight. It seemed the best thing to do under the circumstances. Then there I am at the press conference, and I'm sweating...
...purchasers are fascinating too. An international financier named Bill Oldenburg owns the Express, a U.S. Football League team thriving neither on the field nor at the box office. He claims to have passed up a chance to buy the prosperous Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League: "I could have bought and sold 400 Dallas Cowboys [asking price $62 million], but their personality and everything has already been established. I don't get off on that. I get off on building things from the ground up." At his Investment Mortgage International offices in San Francisco, a large Chinese gong...
...lefthander, he passed for an average of 395 yds. per game last season. Cincinnati Bengals Assistant General Manager Mike Brown, who intended to choose Young first in the May 1 N.F.L. draft, said, "We were just trying to sign a football player. But the Express is trying to buy credibility in the L.A. market." The N.F.L. is competing for athletes, the U.S.F.L. for attention...
Only old American Football League types will understand this, but Express General Manager Don Klosterman and Coach John Hadl had more than $36 million with which to tempt the Brigham Young star. They told him about a time in pro football when camaraderie was not just a word. During the great war of the '60s, both men fought jubilantly on the side of the confederacy. Klosterman negotiated with players under goal posts and signed Heismart Trophy Winner Mike Garrett at halftime of the East-West game. Back then, when Kansas City signed a Garrett, the city of Buffalo cheered...