Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just a quick pan to the number on his back as he lumbered off the field in that tender-kneed way of his, a big, good-looking man, who was virtually undistinguishable under his helmet and football gear. At first, the bar's patrons would cheer just the brief mention of Lynch's name on national TV, but after a few years of such random mentioning by Summerall and Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell, they grew restless. They wondered when Fran would duplicate his two-touchdown feat against the Jets. But he never did. He carried the ball only rarely...
...Summerall, the TV sportscaster, would peruse the names on his spotter's sheet, trying to match the jersey number with a name, and then announce to the ! viewing audience that the tackle had been made by Fran Lynch. Then, after another pause, Summerall would make some brief mention of Lynch's career, his hometown, his college, and then go back to the action...
...England team has been named, and several Harvard players were picked. Benson, after being chosen to the second team last season in his sophomore year, was named to the first team, as was Ben Elizondo. Fred Scherrer was placed on the second team, and Wade Stokes earned an honorable mention. "I worked pretty hard this year and I had the team behind me to get me motivated," Benson said....Last year at Easterns Navy was favored to win, but was upset in the early rounds...
...details deserve further comment. Mr. Cole points out that Roger Clemens did not beat the Mets and suggests that "he's used to anemic American League hitters." I won't accuse Mr. Cole of deliberately neglecting to mention that the demigod Dwight Gooden fared even more poorly against Boston than Clemens did against New York. Second, Mr. Cole suggests that the Red Sox "would trade their whole team" for Darryl Strawberry, adding to the chorus of praise that always greets the most overhyped player in the history of baseball. If Mr. Cole cares to check, he would discover that Dwight...
...have of each other. He tries to prove his point with examples of stereotyping in Arab and Jewish schoolbooks. While Israeli textbooks are guilty of condescension toward Arab culture, Jordanian textbooks used in West Bank schools--and Arab newspapers in general--exhibit virulent militarism and anti-semitism and never mention peaceful reconciliation as a goal. Instead, Arab elementary school children read poems such as "A bullet in the chest of the criminal aggressor/Is more delicate than the whisper of the poem and more merciful...