Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be the New Jersey Devils, who had not qualified for the NHL Playoffs--an elite group of the "best 16" of the 21 league teams--since the franchise moved from Denver to the northeast...
Beneath the banter, both were uneasy over the issue. Jackson's present mission is to win as many delegates as he can, starting this week in Pennsylvania and climaxing in New Jersey and California. Austin calculates that California is the one big arena where Jackson might stage a dramatic upset. Democrats there have a contrarian history of shafting the front runner, and Jackson's operatives were even putting a perverse "win by losing" spin on their situation after New York. "Now it's okay to vote for Jackson, because he's not going to be President," an adviser explained...
...Toledo Mud Hens pitcher, who, upset at having been cut by Robinson, nearly beaned him in an exhibition game. Fired within three years, Robinson reappeared in San Francisco, where in 1982 he managed the languorous Giants into the last week of a pennant race. This time, snatching an occasional jersey in anger, he lasted only slightly longer. The word was that Robinson could not communicate with the modern ballplayers. "I communicate with them," he said. "I just tell them things they don't want to hear." The whispers were that he was especially harsh with the blacks...
...past two weeks, Muscovites have been lining up to buy slices of the first American pizza in the Soviet Union, for 1.25 rubles ($2.10) each at the AstroPizza truck that makes stops around the city. The 18-ft. mobile pizzeria is operated under a joint venture of New Jersey-based Roma Food Enterprises (1987 sales: $100 million) and the City of Moscow...
...launched an emergency ferry service to shuttle commuters between Brooklyn and Manhattan after the deteriorating 85- year-old Williamsburg Bridge was declared unsafe for automobile and subway traffic. Already boats from eleven private companies are plying the city's waterways, ferrying passengers from Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and New Jersey to Wall Street and midtown Manhattan...