Word: legendizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pennies from heaven. Nobody can really blame you for stuffing your pockets, but you shouldn't adjust your lifestyle according to this." Szemberg says increased ticket sales and sponsorship are unlikely to cover the extra cost of the players. Can this reunion last past the NHL lockout? Russian hockey legend Alexei Kasatonov, who now trains teams in New York City, seems to think so. "If a salary ceiling is introduced, then you'll see that the majority of the NHL's Russian players will stay at home," he says. But most are skeptical. Says Anaheim Mighty Ducks defenseman Ruslan Salei...
...Rada [parliament] that voted to fire Yanukovych earlier this month," Stetskiv told Time. He urged Yushchenko to tell the Maidan about Yanukovych's plan, and to call outgoing President Leonid Kuchma to demand that he stop the Cabinet meeting. Yushchenko looked out the window to the wooded hill where, legend has it, the Apostle Andrew erected the first Christian cross in what is now Ukraine, and made up his mind: he would call for the tent city to be dismantled, but also appeal to his supporters to blockade the Cabinet office one more time the next morning, to stop Yanukovych...
...family had more faith. His nephew James Hyman, for one, argued vigorously for decades that Jenkins was innocent, that he must have been kidnapped on that twilight patrol. But because little information filtered out of North Korea, by the 1990s Jenkins' plight had drifted into the stuff of legend. He had become a curious cold-war footnote, presumed by many to be dead. Only in 1996 did a Pentagon report state that it suspected there were at least four American defectors, including Jenkins, still living in North Korea...
...Testament Book of Isaiah that "the ox knows its owner, and the donkey knows its master's crib, but Israel has not known me." By contrast, the camels that pop up in many Nativities are relatively innocent. A passage from the medieval compendium of saints' lives called The Golden Legend tells how they solved a logistical problem for a perplexed church father: "Now it may be demanded how, in so little space of 13 days, [the Magi] might come from so far as from the East unto Jerusalem, which is a great space and a long way. S. Jerome saith...
Thompson remembers how he made a special audition tape for Cosby. “The legend is that [Cosby] watched, like, twenty seconds of it and just gave me the job,” says the Fat Albert star...