Word: rike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years old." Bombeck had been fairly offhanded about singing and dancing, but wising off in print was the best thing since soaping windows at Halloween. A couple of years later she was at it again, clowning about shoplifting, clearance sales and the lunch menu for the newsletter of Rike's department store, where she worked to pay college expenses. "You can't imagine how it fractured those people," she says now. "I knew exactly what I wanted to do. God, I wanted to write. That's all I wanted to do. I really loved the exaggeration...
...baseball umpire: what does he look like? Very likely he's probably somewhat over weight with a red face. It's very likely he's sweating. How does he act? Well, he squats down into that certain undignified position with every pitch and stands up to yodel "Streee-rike" for the good ones. Every time he calls an out at the plate he pumps his meaty fist up and down. When the runner's safe he spreads his arms so far apart that they force his nose into the dirt. Often a manager comes charging out of the dugout...
...products that might cost a little more to buy but which last much longer. Some experts say that this is caused by the American shift to a more European style of living and a desire to own fewer, but better built, things. Says George Core, a vice president of Rike's, a department-store chain in the Dayton area: "The customer is value-conscious and will buy items like microwave ovens, even though the gift is expensive. Warm sweaters and winter coats are good this season, and customers are looking beyond the Christmas holidays to items that will...
...least as shocking as Rachel Carson's ghostly 1962 musing about environmental death in the season of new life. Spring without the crack of the bat, the call of the ump, the roar of the crowd! Only the players, of all people, shouting "St-e-e-rike...