Word: play
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to tell everyone I was adopted," recalls Karla Kelba, 16, a blond, cheery high school junior from Fountain Valley, Calif. "I thought it was very special; the kids thought it was great. But between ten and 13, I went through some rough times. The kids wouldn't play with me. They said my mother didn't want me." There was worse to come. In a health and sex-education class, "my teacher went all off on the subject of how adopted kids are second choice," she recalls angrily. "He said it was the worst thing you could...
TELEVISION: POSTSEASON BASEBALL. If Vin Scully and Tony Kubek get misty eyed in the late innings this week and next, don't be surprised. NBC's coverage of the 1989 play-offs marks the end of an era. TV's premier baseball network is being sent to the showers. Indeed, network baseball in general is getting a dunking. Next season CBS takes over major-league baseball's broadcast rights (currently divided between NBC and ABC) but will deliver only twelve games, plus the play-offs and the World Series. That means Saturday-afternoon-at-the- ball-park broadcasts (begun...
This is precisely what seems to be happening. Abortion, which was thrown out of the judicial closet by last term's decision granting states more regulatory power, is fast blossoming into a major electoral issue in state and local races around the country. The matter is expected to play an important role in the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey this year. State legislatures, meanwhile, are being hit with a flood of pro-choice and pro-life proposals...
...summer weekend schedule was set: catch the Bolts on Saturday nights and play at the Quad every Sunday...
...almost every weekend on the summer. I got the chance to see Donigan and his mates. I wanted to play again...