Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale Sucks" hats were a hot selling item in Cambridge last week. Yale doesn't suck, it never has and it never will, but those of us at Harvard want to believe it does. We want to reassure ourselves that we are "the best." People who have nothing to do with what happens on the field think it is some reflection on their greater worth. They are apt to harbor grudges when their self image is attacked. Losing teams have been turned on by fans who took a defeat too personally. Mickey Rivers almost never plays center field in Fenway...
...weeks last March, the Harvard hockey team was the number-one sports item in town, as it kept winning through weekend after weekend of post-season play, losing only in the NCAA championship game...
...company in 1971, its sales have more than quintupled, reaching an annual $1.4 billion, thanks in large part to the serenely elegant ads directed by Heineken himself. What he calls "the Rolls-Royce of beers" now sells in 150 countries and is by volume the largest single item to be shipped from Europe to North America...
...Brien, who said he wanted an insider picked, had the item placed on the agenda for a Board of Governors' meeting called to discuss the referee's strike. When he proposed Stern, the owners quickly agreed, going through the entire selection process in less than half an hour...
...candidacy, the record should show that during those exact minutes when Glenn was drifting down out of orbit in his parachute and being fished out of the Atlantic Ocean, Kennedy was in a rage at the White House, questioning my ancestry, threatening my very journalistic life over a tiny item about his clothing that appeared in this magazine. Only when Captain Tazewell Shepard, naval aide, dashed in to announce, "Mr. President, Colonel Glenn is on the phone," did Kennedy climb back up on his pedestal with this admonition to me: "Stand there and see if you can get this right...