Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best way to describe Doug is as Tysonistic," Polsky says. "He's a real fighter out there and he'll do anything to win that match. Doug's told us many stories of his childhood in Boston when he used to have to fight with kids to get into the lunchline, and Doug of course was always first served. I've seen him crawl, bite, scratch and do nameless other things just to come out with that `W.' In a nutshell, he's the street fighting kid we need on the team...
...talk to a superstar player," Taylor said. "The schools are comparable in many ways so the kid says, `There's a program that's number one in the country, and they want me, and there's Tim Taylor and his program.' It's not much of a choice...
...spend his whole life in the public service, and I suppose the impression I had as a kid was that he was doing something that, in the cliche of the day, "made a difference." When he took over, the town was on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was refinanced. And within a few years it had an A-1 credit rating...
...addition to making the transition to college life they're playing a sport. That can be terrific because it provides him with an immediate group of people he can be friends with. On the other hand, it can be a negative situation depending on how much pressure that kid puts on himself...
...simplest tasks, from hanging up their clothes to making the bed. In school they throw erasers, kick desks, shove classmates and are so busy making nuisances of themselves that they fail to absorb their lessons. One bedeviled mother speaks for many when she says, "I would have given the kid away...