Word: minnesota
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...Olympic Team has an official reserve goaltender--Paul ("The Chief") DeGironimo, Army's former goalie. In addition to practicing with the team, DeGironimo also acts as an "administrative assistant," according to the media guide. Last year, The Chief went 0-2 against Harvard, surrendering 13 goals...The University of Minnesota has five players on the U.S. Olympic squad. Boston College has four. Harvard and the University of Wisconsin have three apiece...Bourbeau's linemate, Steve Leach, played for the Washington Capitals last year...
...report describes specific cases of hunger in America, such as a malnourished baby surviving on rice and beans in Houston and a Minnesota man who was "unable to provide a meal at his daughter's wedding...
Indoor baseball has finally made it to the World Series, along with the Minnesota Twins (ne Washington Senators) and St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals' once again coming through dire circumstances is a drama without suspense, but the Twins are a thorough surprise. Over 84 fall classics, only the 1973 New York Mets lost more games along the way (81 to 78). In both instances, first at Cincinnati and now Detroit, the playoff victim was Sparky Anderson, who has penned a small couplet on upsets: "It ain't no fun when the rabbit...
Humble as these moments are, they are our epiphanies. They deliver us belatedly from the cruel satirical embrace of Sinclair Lewis, the last Minnesota author anyone paid attention to, and, perhaps, restore to us our humanity. Hard to fly over us uncomprehendingly after you have read Garrison Keillor. Epiphanies? Did I really use that word? I'm glad I didn't speak up at the Sidetrack. I might've tried to use it conversationally. "Cheess, Rollie, you been down there in the Cities too long," somebody would certainly have said...
...thats a pity. People here could learn a lot from Minnesota in the series...