Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eight-year-old Blake Day stepped to the plate yesterday in the Cambridge Common not only did he face tough pitching but also some obstacles along the base path: mud...
Most people have to wait until they actually get into college to get involved with cyberspace. But with the resources of a university at my disposal, I was using words like "ftp," "MUD," "emacs" and "teinet" even before I graduated from lil' ol' Blacksburg High School...
...thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...
Mitchell hailed journalists for having "encouraged voters to peer through the mud, into the real issues." He quoted Mark Twain, saying that "a lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots...
...works nicely against TV type. The story deals with two black brothers, but there is no jivey street talk. The younger (Larry Fishburne) is a policeman, but we never see him draw a gun. The elder (Carl Lumbly) is an uptight banker, the sort of Republican stick-in-the-mud who gets lampooned on TV sitcoms. When the banker is killed in a mugging, the cop must grapple with a range of emotions: a craving for revenge; an emerging sense of responsibility for his brother's family; even (suggested ever so delicately) + romantic stirrings for his sister-in-law. Some...