Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People of letters have always gravitated toward sport. I've always found [baseball] the most satisfying and nourishing of games, outside of literature," Giamatti told The Boston Globe last week...
...Mickey Mouse. Wise move. After all, Emperor Hirohito has been spotted in a Mickey Mouse wristwatch, and for 21 years the Mitsubishi Bank has treated new customers to Mickey towels, tissue paper and toothpaste, even Mickey piggy banks. Lately, the round-eared rodent has been challenged across the globe by snappy, snippy Snoopy and indolent, insolent Garfield. But the animated 58- year-old is still reigning over cats and dogs...
...first was born Kenneth Millar in 1915 and died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed." The third is a former Boston Globe critic and the inventor of the flippant Fletch, whose snooping is sanctioned by a press card rather than a badge...
When Robert Healy, a 30-year political correspondent and now columnist for The Boston Globe, was covering the 1960 Presidential primaries, Lyndon B. Johnson pulled him aside. "You don't think that skinny little guy will be president, do you?" he said, pointing to John F. Kennedy...
...wrought and yearn restlessly to get on with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly 1.8 billion miles to inspect the planet Uranus. Such wonders are indeed extraordinary...