Word: long
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such long legs and can just fly down the field," Yenne added. "And she has a great leg; her shot is unstoppable when it's on-line...
Ryutaro Hashimoto's remarks in an hour-long speech, on topics ranging from Japanese-American relations to the inner workings of Japanese holding companies, were entirely in Japanese. One-third of the audience donned small headsets to hear an English translation...
...unique events that happened fourscore-plus years ago provide a useful way of marking time. The summoning of such events, as if at a seance, makes an audience sit up, take notice, realize just how much water has passed beneath the bridge. Also: A grander grandeur accrues to the long-past achievement as we reflect on how many human generations have come and gone in the interim ? not only how frail is the flesh, but how rare was the deed. Such a bygone event, hearkened, creates nostalgia and longing. That must have been wonderful, to be in audience as those...
...Bill Buckner was a first baseman who let a ball slip through his legs in 1986, giving the New York Mets life and, ultimately, the championship. He's a player in this long psychodrama now, as are Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams ? some great baseball names. But this isn't about them. It's about Scott, my brother-in-law and father of my niece. Scott is not from Massachusetts and until recently wasn't even much of a baseball fan. His wife, Gail, my sister, is fiercely from Massachusetts, as are my brother, my father, my mother...
...When did my dad first declare, ?"I hope they win it in my lifetime"? I can't recall. Long time ago. For some few years now I've been telling fellow Sox fans, "I sure hope they win it in my dad's lifetime." They nod knowingly. They either have dads, had dads or are dads ? or moms, this applies to moms, too ? and no notion can be voiced in New England that gives as immediate and sobering a view of mortality as "I hope the Sox win it in our lifetime." So many lifetimes that, during which...