Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Montreal and Mexico City will likely join four U.S. and four to six European cities in a twelve-game season leading to a summertime World Bowl. Towns tired of hoping for N.F.L. expansion franchises (Jacksonville, Memphis, Oakland and Baltimore) would seem the prime American candidates for the auxiliary league. London, Dublin, Frankfurt and Milan are among the European possibilities...
...this in professional sports. With his team about to be eliminated from the Stanley Cup semifinals last week, Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ron Hextall buried his stick in Montreal Canadien Chris Chelios' back...
...moving with unusual speed and resolve. Meeting in Helsinki last week, representatives from 86 countries said they favored a total ban on certain chlorofluorocarbons, man-made chemicals believed to be destroying the ozone, / by the end of the century at the latest. That goes far beyond the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which called for a 50% cut in CFC manufacture...
...this charming memoir, half of PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer news team deftly links his early biography to the words and books he learned, to connections made. Born in Montreal but raised mostly in Halifax, Robert MacNeil was the son of a seagoing Mountie (in Canada's equivalent of the Coast Guard) and a Nova Scotian mother who delighted in reading aloud to her sons. MacNeil's first nonbaby words were "gin fizz" -- the name of a teddy bear. He recalls being amazed, on a rare trip aboard his father's corvette, that sailing terms derived from Viking days (coxswain, starboard) still...
Mekonnen, whose previous victories came in the 1986 Montreal, Addis Ababa and Rotterdam marathons and the 1988 Beijing and Tokyo marathons, called the undulating Boston course difficult...