Word: knights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like squires crowding around a knight before a joust, the people huddle around the guy pressing the Fire button. The cynics stand back, sipping their icy Cokes like isolated exjousters grinning in their ale. All stare at the machines, not at each other. The glare stifles even the noisy. These would-be heroes can forge only a cold camaraderie as they pursue their isolated quests. Searches for ever more tenuous shadow. People enter an arcade together. Inside, they separate...
...Criticism. I thought of myself as a species of knight-errant attacking dragons singlehandedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress...
College basketball coaches worry and sometimes complain about the practice of publishing betting lines so blithely. Angrily, Indiana's Bobby Knight likens it to listing the phone numbers of prostitutes...
...such legal action will give Marathon more time to find a white knight with a superior offer. The goal, after all, is to secure the best deal possible before admitting defeat...
...meantime, Marathon directors quickly began considering their options for the next step. Many companies at this stage start looking for a so-called white knight, a firm willing to offer a higher price or more attractive merger conditions. Marathon's choices for such a savior are limited to a few giant corporations, mostly other oil companies, that have the financial resources to outbid Mobil. So far, however, no public candidates have come forward...