Word: flea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever to hit the National Football League. Pretty awesome." On a fourth down off-tackle play everyone in the Rose Bowl expected, Riggins crashed the line and ran 43 yds. for the telling touchdown. Earlier there were Washington tricks, the flanker reverse Richard Nixon used to recommend, the flea flicker Ronald Reagan so admires. But, as Shula said, "the old-fashioned stuff is what did us in: the pounding." He took it pretty well...
...just doing my part." Houston-area companies contributed tents, rolls of plastic, Coleman stoves, water tanks and portable toilets. Stacks of donated firewood, piles of used clothing (so much that donors had to be warned that some of it will be sold at local flea markets) and job offers came pouring...
...consorting with Producer Jed Harris: "More nights than I care to remember I'd stand there and cry, and then wipe away my tears so that I wouldn't look like a wino on the subway riding uptown. I'd go back to that flea-bitten hotel room and I'd sit in the dark...
With regard to the article "Sinking a Name" [May 10], please note that the Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) telephone directory lists: the Corpus Christi Flea Market, the Corpus Christi Mud Pit Services, the Corpus Christi Amusement Co., the Corpus Christi Speedway, and the Corpus Christi Pistol and Rifle Club. Where is the righteous indignation of Bishop Drury over these slurrings of the sacrament of the Eucharist...
...game's changing momentum, however, sufficed to keep interest high during the second half. On their first possession the Bengals put together an impressive 83-yard drive, which included a flea flicker of their own. Anderson scored on a six-yard run on a boot-leg play to cut the lead...