Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grabbing his friend from Arkansas, Harry Thomason, and heading for the residence bowling alley. The President squeezed his size-13 feet into the size-10 shoes left by the Bush Administration and shared the one ball for three games until the blisters began to form. Upstairs, amid a growing mound of coffee cups, pizza boxes from Listrani's and burn bags filled with discarded drafts, the team was trying to compress Clinton's huge vision for America into a size-10 Treasury. By dawn Wednesday, there was a crisp stack of pages on Clinton's desk to be torn apart...
...walls, and Dave Winfield is a hero. Perhaps, just perhaps, his triumph means that we'll see a kinder, gentler George in the spring. The starting pitcher for the Blue Jays in the final game, David Cone, is a prized free agent considering digging his cleats into the pitching mound in the Bronx. Maybe we'll sign him, and maybe a shamed Boss will treat him with the dignity he deserves. Hope springs eternal...
...beating hasn't stopped. Last December the Department of Energy announced the closure of the EG&G Mound Applied Technologies nuclear-weapons facility in Miamisburg (pop. 18,000), which employs 1,600 and pumps millions into the community. In January USAir closed most of its hub at Dayton International Airport. Heavy dependence on the auto industry gives residents the jitters: with eight plants employing about 20,000 workers, Montgomery County has the largest concentration of domestic GM jobs outside Michigan...
...listening to Jesse Jackson and AIDS activists in Madison Square Garden. Instead it turned into another Bush public relations fiasco. Showing uncommon disrespect for the man as well as the office, the crowd at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium booed Bush as he strode to the pitcher's mound with the legendary slugger Ted Williams -- not exactly the image he wished to convey to roughly 22 million television viewers...
Then Johnston, the scheduled starter, had to take the mound in the second game...