Word: rods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington is wondering how long Stockman can keep "it." Reagan's trust in his lightning rod could weaken if it is struck too often. In the budget battles that lie ahead, what could damage Stockman most is his determination to be more of a Reaganite than Ronald Reagan...
...modernist contract. They change, but their changing no longer seems as important as it did in 1900, or 1930, or even 1960. When one speaks of the end of modernism, one does not invoke a sudden historical terminus. Histories do not break off clean, like a glass rod; they fray, stretch and come undone, like rope. There was no specific year in which the Renaissance ended; but it did end, although culture is still permeated with the active remnants of Renaissance thought...
...Eastern householder and father thinks of his rarely used fly rod and his 13-year-old son. Maybe the boy will yet grow up with more trees than people. Oregonians are supposed to be like New Englanders: liberals in politics, but personally conservative. He has heard they can still leave their cars and houses unlocked. Now he finds himself remembering that the battery has twice been stolen out of his car, in his own garage on his own street. And recalling a recent New York headline: CITY READY TO UNLEASH SUBWAY DOG PATROL! So he heads west with...
...star on defense was Outside Linebacker Rod Martin. Slight by N.F.L. standards (6 ft. 2 in., 210 lbs.), Martin had made only two interceptions in his four N.F.L. seasons. "I'm not used to being a celebrity," said Martin. "Ted Hendricks is supposed to be our star linebacker, and that's fine with me." Yet it was he, not Hendricks, who turned New Orleans' Superdome into his private playground, setting a Super Bowl record with three interceptions...
Hear any good Northeastern jokes lately? How about the Husky defenseman who brought a rod and reel on the ice...for fishing the puck out of the net? That one hasn't been around for a while, not since last year. That's what The Beanpot...