Word: mascotism
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...don’t think any team is going to be able to keep a clean sheet against us,” Hoff said. “If we can go into the half even, we are going to win the game.” True to their mascot, the Minutemen did not go down without a fight. In the waning minutes they were able to knock in a goal that robbed the Crimson of the shutout—but not the win. “It made the last couple of minutes more agonizing then they...
...decade ago). Arellano's ambitions to work illegally in the U.S. predate her status as a fugitive mother who only wants to be with her citizen son. Her case and her cause have also at times been handled inartfully - the aggressive use of her young son as a mascot for the movement at times bordered on being exploitative. And finally, as opponents of Arellano rightly point out, she could always simply get Saul to come live with her in Mexico...
...persuaded myself that pools weren't only for cartoon billionaires like Donald Trump or the Monopoly mascot. And then the contractor installing my pool introduced himself as--this is not a joke--Joe Rich...
...ingratiate myself in Yunnan by bringing up the Olympics. But it did make me sympathetic to a dejected vendor sitting idly by her stall as nearby competitors did brisk business selling ethnic-themed tourist trinkets. Her wares? Olympic key chains and stuffed toys modeled after the Beijing 2008 mascot. "No business today," she sighed. "Maybe tomorrow...
...feel the ache that comes when yet another episode ends with the heart still a lonely hunter. And if you think being a single woman is all fun and games, just listen to star Parker, who is married to actor Matthew Broderick. Even as she's become a mascot for the feisty new single woman, Parker says she often stands on the set in her spike Jimmy Choo open-toes and see-through shirts, worried that she isn't being a good traditional wife. "I know he doesn't have his laundry done, that he hasn...