Word: franked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Okay guys, how does the 7-11 hot dog compare to the Fenway frank...
...were charmed by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes but wished at times that the author would have got out of the way of his own beguiling style, try All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Beacon Press; 288 pages; $24), Michael Patrick MacDonald's guileless and powerful memoir of precarious life and early death in Boston's Irish ghetto...
...Frank Minna wasn't just any boss. He was the epitome of hustler cool, a guy who offered four teenagers, just about the only whites at a predominantly black orphanage, the distinction of becoming his errand boys. For Essrog the decision was a no-brainer. At St. Vincent's Home for Boys he was choking on a flood of words and impulses in need of release. "Language bubbled inside me now, the frozen sea melting, but it felt too dangerous to let out." Over the next 15 years Minna encouraged Essrog to speak (in shouts, non sequiturs, stupid riddles...
...Frank Stanton received an unexpected call asking him to run for Harvard's Board of Overseers, one of the University's two governing boards. What made it even stranger was this was the Ohio Wesleyan graduate's first contact with the country's oldest university...
What?s another few hundred million when you?re talking about Texas football? Energy billionaire Robert McNair was oilman-frank about how he brought the NFL back to Houston ?- by going "higher than any reasonable person would go" with a negotiations-ending $700 million bid for a franchise. "We knew we differentiated ourselves," he said. Result? Two groups (one led by Hollywood power broker Mike Ovitz) that wanted to bring a team back to oft-abandoned Los Angeles are going home unhappy. And the price of a sports team ? which these days comes with the additional cost of the kind...