Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fervent fans who jam the Bills' Rich Stadium have a credibility problem. A banner hanging over the railing recently pleaded: LET'S GET RIDICULOUS! And that, to the crowd's delight, is just what the Buffalo Bills are doing. Their surprising performance this year has backers dancing on the soggy Astroturf and even thinking about a faraway game in January called the Super Bowl. Not so long ago, the chances of championship rings appearing on Bills' fingers seemed about as likely as finding hammerhead sharks in Lake Erie. In 1985 Buffalo sulked in the National Football League basement with...
...With these children, you have to push a little harder," a woman named Helen is saying in a fervent voice at that morning's session of foster families. Connecticut has a policy against letting HIV-positive children languish in hospitals or boarding institutions. What it has instead are these 18 foster families, a kind of loose-knit secret society dedicated to giving the children normal lives. Some of them got started as foster parents because they knew the birth mother, or because they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together...
...like S.M.U. remains to be seen. The reformist president, A. Kenneth Pye, is enthusiastic. "We're not talking Rhodes scholars," he says. "But you don't see idiots playing for Joe Paterno. You don't see them at Notre Dame." Pye's new athletic director, Doug Single, is equally fervent, promising "there will be no more majoring in 'staying eligible.' Running a clean program and winning are not incompatible...
...Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) changed the game of arms control. Reagan's proposal was conceived by former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane as a great sting operation, Talbott reveals, designed to get the Soviets to trade away their heavy land-based missiles. Nitze's fervent goal was to cap his career with a "Grand Compromise" that would swap a reduction of offensive missiles for restrictions on strategic defenses. But to do this he often had to operate behind the back of the President. At the Reykjavik summit Nitze almost saw his dream fulfilled, only to have it dashed...
...might have dropped out of the same sky to try to win. The band, a little forlorn in the night, is drums, electronic keyboard piano and electric guitar, and it sounds like a Milwaukee roadhouse on a Saturday night. It plays Happy Days Are Here Again. The scene is fervent and lonely...