Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Please. They're a bunch of monsters. But they're our monsters, mind you, and we love them to death. There's Nick, who likes to swing out of trees or monkey bars onto coaches' necks, wrestling them to the ground. Or Jamie, who will randomly lie down on the field during scrimmages and refuse to play. And there's Max--the only player on our team to draw a red card for inappropriate language--who a few weeks ago slipped away from the gym at the school where we were practicing and was caught by a janitor...
...Flooding. The remissions don't last forever, but long enough. With a prodigious effort of overindulgence, playing till my mind is numb and my eyes are crossed, unable to stand another look at a checkered board, I emerge blinkingly into the light of life, free of the monkey for another while...
...adage goes, however, once the monkey is on your back, it's pretty hard to get it off. Brown ripped off a 16-8 run to end the game and capture...
...after nearly two-thirds of California voters passed the controversial anti-illegal immigration Proposition 187, a state judge threw a monkey wrench into the works. In San Francisco, Superior Court Judge Stuart Pollak issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of 187's provision that bars illegal immigrants from public schools. The judge said 187 conflicts with a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to provide a public education to all residents. State Attorney General Dan Lungren vowed to fight the judge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. As-yet unchallenged: Prop 187 provisions...
...victory ended the team's three-game slide, and removed a little monkey off its back...