Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...becoming caught up in the experience. And then, just when I thought it couldn't possibly get any louder, something extraordinary happened: an image of Larry Bird (Larry Bird!), cheering from his court side seat, flashed onto the monitors scattered around the Garden. When the fans saw the basketball legend, they reacted as if God himself had sided with the Celtics; the already overpowering level of electricity in the Boston Garden doubled! The crowd was gloriously bound together in a moment of fanatic lunacy...
...lesson I would draw from Molly's problem with eggs is that old one about unintended consequences. It's the lesson that was always drawn from the Soviet propaganda film of cold war legend that had been intended to demonstrate the brutality of strike-busting thugs beating peaceful American workers but apparently left Russian audiences impressed instead with the fact that all the workers seemed to be wearing decent shoes...
...hold Baesler responsible for Clinton's hits on the tobacco industry: a tobacco farmer, Baesler has chastised the President for threatening the fragile, tobacco-dependent economy of the state. He is also a born-and-bred Lexington boy who was captain of his college basketball team under hoop legend Adolf Rupp, and went on to become a three-time mayor...
...G.O.P. legend Robert Walker's retirement has left the 16th open, and Pitts wants to preserve its conservative legacy. This high-profile Chester County Republican emphasizes his credentials as a Vietnam veteran, former small-business owner and 24-year state legislator. In a Republican-leaning district, that adds to his edge...
BORN: Oct. 11, 1959, Savannah, Ga. EDUCATION: Duke U, A.B., 1981; U of Virginia, J.D., 1984 FAMILY: Wife, Mary Anne; five children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 361, Greenville 29602. Tel.: 864-421-9696 Inglis, who's courting South Carolina legend by sleeping on an air mattress in his congressional office, approaches "right-sizing" the Federal Government with monastic dedication. For the nation's good, he's against pork-barrel spending and furthers his political zeal as co-chairman of the Term Limits National Campaign. In keeping with that duty...