Word: rods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pitcher are substituted, the trade will be a giveaway of the Rod Carew variety: a high-priced superstar for an established player (Howe) and a handful of tenuous could...
...production," as Critic Robert Adams says in Bad Mouth, the problem of deception goes far beyond politics. Many people in academia, in science, in engineering, in medicine, in law, in the crafts-all have been caught in the act of exercising the scruples of a fly-by-night lightning-rod salesman. Skulduggery turns up so often in the commercial world that the best graduate schools of business tram students to cope with deceptive practices. Americans as a whole so stretch the truth in preparing their tax returns that the Internal Revenue Service claims that it cost the U.S. Treasury...
...accelerate like a Ferrari. The Multiflex at its best can be elegant football. Plays like Harvard's second touchdown in the 1971 35-16 victory over Yale still warm hearts. With the ball on the Yale 29, Restic put his quarterback, Eric "End Zone" Crone, at tailback while Rod Foster called signals. But Foster backed off the ball at the line of scrimmage and the snap went back to Crone, who rolled out and found Dennis Sullivan deep in the endzone for a score. Or, for a more contemporary example, Brian Buckley's 67-yd touchdown run against Army last...
...final Crimson tally somehow seemed especially deserved. Just as they and been doing all day, Smith and Keller-Sarmiento moved deftly up the right wing. This time though, instead of seeing Lord Jeff goalie Rod Cole gather in a hard shot, Keller-Sarmiento scored on a blistering shot into the lower left corner...
...Calif., hangar. Other losses flowed from the hotels that Summa owned but managed haphazardly, a company formed to promote blood-analysis devices, Football Today, and a worldwide fleet of 34 aircraft ready to answer the whims of Hughes and his staff. Said Lummis last week: "Hughes was a lightning rod for every disaster imaginable...