Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hockey. Ask me about the Islanders and I'll tell you spinetingling tales of Chico Resch saves, Bryan Trottier dekes and Mike Bossy wrist shots. Ask me about RPI and I'll recount the exploits of Dino Serra, Barry Martinelli, Steve Stoyanovich and other creative names. Ask me about the Bruins and I'll laugh...
...broad and delicate. It contains some of Simon's best writing as well as his worst: childish jokes about vomiting coexist with wise statements about the art of marriage. So mixed are the returns on California Suite that, if it were an election, one would insist on a recount...
...votes apiece) between a Democrat and a Republican. Since the legislature could not deal with such matters as choosing a speaker until the tie was broken, it seemed that the two candidates might have to settle their contest by drawing lots. Last week, however, a recount in the deadlocked district showed that Incumbent Kenneth Cole, a Democrat, had actually won by 14 votes. But soon, alas, the legislature was back in a 101-101 impasse: the day after Cole's election, another Democrat, Frank Meluskey. died while vacationing in Florida...
...subject seems beyond the interest or knowledge of Berton Roueché. An amateur gourmet, he writes lovingly of bananas, "the humblest fruit," but with their comprehensive range of minerals and protective germ-battling skin, a near perfect food. He delves into history to recount the tale of garlic (the early Greeks and Israelites learned about it from the Egyptians). He waxes more poetic about apples, rejecting the notion that this was the fruit forbidden to Adam and Eve. "The apple-the apple I know, the apple of country cider and the autumn roadside bushel-would be out of character...
...Cole and Republican Donald Moul, director of the National Trotting and Pacing Association, each got exactly 8,551 votes. The tie made it impossible to settle such crucial matters as control of the speaker's job and the appointment of committee chairmen. Should the tie hold after a recount, the candidates will settle the contest by drawing lots from a paper bag. Complained Cole's wife: "People in a democracy are entitled to more than a poker game...