Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raiders are 0-6 in league play and have been outscored 37-18. But the team has gotten its kicks by beating Canadian cream-puff York, 7-3, earlier this year, and Division III Plattsburgh, 14-3, Friday...
...rises this morning from the carcass of Sarajevo. The city has a clinging, ragged aura about it. Fog seeps through shattered buildings and seems to puff through the bullet holes in windows...
...lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection, My Hard Bargain, plays fair with both the churchly and the wicked -- middling people in an everyday predicament. His story is shrewd and wryly amusing...
...Marijuana. He always handled the drug-use question by insisting, "I never broke the laws of my country." Only in a debate before the New York primary was Clinton pressed on whether he had ever used drugs abroad. The answer: a confession that he had taken a puff at Oxford, coupled with that now famous -- and widely doubted -- exculpatory phrase "I didn't inhale...
...most of us idiotai, though, it is too late. Today's athletes were at the gym years ago, some since infancy, honing physical gifts with the huff-and- puff of endless gruntwork, the torturous frowns of coaches who could never be pleased and the sacrifice of the life and leisure that we take for granted. So who are we to begrudge them gold and glory? Grace and strength may seem perfectly natural, but they require painful perfection. Thus with the same envy, wonder and anticipation that the ancients experienced, we await a new round of Olympic spectacle. Let the Games...