Word: home-team
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...after a pair of Navy F-14s blasted two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra, the jolt of home-team pride was strong, and the taking of tiny Grenada last year prompted more V-G-day celebrating than seemed strictly appropriate. Jesse Jackson's presidential candidacy, despite the antagonisms it sometimes stirred, was a salutary symbol of black progress. The Democrats' historic nomination of a woman for Vice President added to the political selfesteem. The high spirits surrounding the Olympic Games struck some observers as jingoistic and ungracious. But with American athletes winning nearly everything in sight...
...Europe, a television feed was sent by satellite to an unnamed West European country, where videotapes were spirited each day to Bucharest. Rumanian state television broadcast five hours of competition a night, with Rumanian-language voice-overs added at the studio in Bucharest. Not surprisingly, the broadcasts focused on home-team triumphs, though the awesome medal harvest of U.S. athletes was I duly noted. Rumanian commentators said nothing about the Soviet boycott...
South Carolina C 48 Jackson and Glenn seek votes previously committed to Home-Team Favorite Ernest Rollings...
...genre is new, its methods still in the formative stage, but King is its popular master. Different Seasons offers a dazzling display of how writing can appeal to people who do not ordinarily like to read. King uses language the same way the baseball fan seated behind the home-team dugout uses placards: to remind those present of what they have already seen. In Apt Pupil, for example, a 13-year-old boy tracks down a Nazi war criminal hiding out in his own Southern California suburb. When he confronts the fugitive, the youth is disappointed...
...their sports sections and asking some tantalizing questions. What if Renaldo Nehemiah were running the 110-meter hurdles? What if Mac Wilkins were throwing the discus? What if Larry Myricks were competing in the long jump, and the U.S. basketball team were challenging the Soviets on their home court? Like home-team boosters everywhere, they will know the answers with a visceral certainty. Gold. Gold. Gold. So, too, will many Soviets, whatever face they put upon their diminished Olympiad...