Word: freaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very confident and optimistic at that point," Flynn said. "It was just a freak injury...
This week's childhood memory is of Little League. (Last week, it was my fear of not playing tackle football with the older kids on the block because then they would think I was some kind of classical music freak.) Everyone who has ever caught a baseball has Little League moments. Some of my friends still have those cheap, puny trophies with the miniature baseball player posing on top stored somewhere in their rooms. No one wants to forget...
...Today's development was as many people, including myself, expected," said Lee Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker, who called Friday's 190-point drop a "freak." Houthakker also said that the Black Monday crash of 1987 was "relatively insignificant" to the economy...
Exxon refuses to discuss Hazelwood, including stories about his ship- handling feats. In 1985, for instance, Hazelwood was captain of the Exxon Chester, an asphalt carrier, as it headed from New York to South Carolina. Offshore of Atlantic City the ship ran into a freak storm. High winds snapped the ship's mast, and it toppled, along with the ship's radar and electronics gear. With 30-ft. waves and 50-knot winds overpowering the vessel, several sailors grabbed life jackets and prepared to abandon ship. But Hazelwood calmed the crew and rigged a makeshift antenna. After radioing shore...
Hard to believe that only two years ago he was viewed as the freak from Harvard, with commentators calling him "the smart, nerdy...