Word: invented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife and is forced to miss three weeks of the season. The Pats don't have to shop around for another split end; they just call up a player from their Boston College farm team to replace him. Same thing for basketball. Bill Walton gets hurt? No need to invent a stiff like Greg Kite--the Celtics just call up Rony Seikaly from the Big East League and have him fill in for a few games. Then send him back to Syracuse when Walton recovers...
When Tom Murphy, the speaker of the Georgia House, helped invent the Southern regional primary, his purpose was clear: "To bring the Democratic Party back to the mainstream of Southern thinking." With probably 15 Southern and border states selecting about 30% of the 1988 convention delegates during the week of March 8, the field seemed tailored for a moderate Democrat who could tell the difference between kudzu and ivy. But likely Southern entries retreated from the fray: Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers and former Virginia Governor Charles Robb declared themselves out, and Georgia Senator Sam Nunn has temporized...
...inability to stay on schedule. Most network series turn out at least 22 new episodes a season; Moonlighting will be lucky to scrape together 17. Its scripts are often finished just a few hours before shooting starts, and some episodes have even wound up short, forcing the writers to invent an extra scene to fill the time -- usually just the two stars vamping before the camera to "introduce" the segment...
...changed channels to catch a Miller spot, which proudly advertised: "Miller's Made The American Way." This really seemed weird. Why do some marketeers invent strange foreign-sounding names like Frusen Gladje when their products are such American staples as ice cream, while other enterprising capitalists like the Miller people focus on their product's domestic origin? And why do this for beer, when it is generally acknowledged that Bavaria is the beer capital of the known universe...
Reagan was reknowned for his ability to "visualize" games and--from scraps of paper--invent an absorbing world of heroic athletes. Listeners knew he was inventing the games, but pretended otherwise. It was more exciting that way. "There was a complicity in the make-believe," Wills writes. And why not? After all, a ball game had taken place, one team had won, and such-and-such a player had hit a home run while another struck...