Word: handiest
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...Area has never loved him more. Esiason won most of this year's quarterback awards, but Montana has no peer at the moment. Along with Walsh's brain and Montana's arm, a 49er composite features receiver Jerry Rice's hands and Roger Craig's legs. The handiest all- around back in football, Craig is one of three ex-Nebraska runners on call. "It isn't just that they're sound fundamentally," Walsh says, "it's that they love the game...
...Cambridge polling places, voters contributed to the tremendous victory of Democrat Michael S. Dukakis, the handiest Massachussetts gubernatorial victory since...
...Determination. Understanding. Hustle. He's also got some talent." So much of it, according to Supersub Bill Walton, 33, that teammates have to combat a powerful impulse just to stand and gawk. A sizable but unsturdy slab of alabaster, Walton was once breathtakingly Bird-like. Now he is the handiest extra man on an exceedingly deep team that chanced to lose just one home game this interminable season. Bostonians are poised to measure Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge and company against any club of memory or mythology, from Chamberlain's Philadelphia 76ers and Willis Reed...
Dropping back shorter and throwing quicker this year, unsinkable Quarterback Jim Plunkett has made Marcus Allen the handiest pass catcher among running backs and Todd Christensen the most prolific receiver of all others in the league. Christensen's 92 receptions are the record for a tight end. A failed Dallas Cowboy runner, who stubbornly still wears a backfield number, 46, Christensen is given to writing and quoting poetry. Says Plunkett, 36: "It's fun to play with the Raiders because everyone is encouraged to be himself...
Exactly as reported in the Boston Globe Feb. 19, Walker struck and signed an odd pact with the New Jersey Generals, the U.S.F.L. franchise handiest to Madison Avenue. The deal carried an oral escape clause he exercised the next morning, the same day he told a press assembly, "I didn't sign anything...