Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents turned out in record numbers to re-elect board members favoring the project to the Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Service (NHS), despite opposition from some community activists who say Harvard is giving the group the land in exchange for political favors...
Glen Rice was the player who carried Fisher and the Wolverines to the title with 31 points in the final, giving him an NCAA tournament record 184, breaking the 24-year-old mark of 177 set by Bill Bradley of Princeton...
Irving does not let his narrator have the liveliest lines. Wheelwright is passive by design. The vigorous Puritan tradition of his ancestors has become thin and unsteady. His role is to record the actions of others and canonize his childhood friend...
...ordinarily bright spring-training atmosphere was further darkened by proliferating reports that Rose has blown his fortune on wagers. The Dayton Daily News stated that he recently sold the bat and ball from his record 4,192nd hit. Rose responded with a melancholy "No comment." None of his comments throughout the besieged week were more expansive than a flippant remark to S.I.: "I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball...
...Rose devoured the game with such a primitive pleasure that people said he had skipped his true generation. Usually sliding on his stomach, he inched closer and closer to the dustiest of legends until in 1985 he passed Ty Cobb in total hits and kept on going to a record 4,256 hits and 3,562 games. Then he became the legend...