Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negative indicators, consumers have been on a massive spending spree, snapping up appliances, going on vacations abroad and buying automobiles at a rate almost twice that of last year. The reason for their nonchalance: a combination of official and homespun safeguards that insulates almost every citizen from the roller coaster of the national economy...
...think that there is anything in tennis less becoming than McEnroe, the game probably is at its prettiest for Wimbledon. It is possible that there are only three moments of legitimate professional tennis all year: the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. The rest may well be Roller Derby...
Despite his accomplishments, including 1500-meter victories in the IC4A's in 1981 and 1983 and captaining the 1981 cross-country team, Dixon has had a roller coaster career at Harvard. A foot injury incurred during a dual meet with Army sidelined the track star for 14 months. At the time vying to become the top collegiate middle distance runner; after the injury many counted Dixon out of the running...
...Street pioneer and the winner of eight Emmy Awards for that show as well as such specials as Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Stone's notion was to create a quest theme. The story opens as Big Bird (played, as he is on Sesame Street, by Caroll Spinney), roller-skates through Manhattan's Chinatown and admires a scroll depicting the legendary phoenix of China. He is smitten and resolves to go to China as a sort of avian Henry Kissinger, to tell the phoenix that "American birds think Chinese birds are just swell." Finding the phoenix...
...tight-weak," one contestant in formed Alvarez, describing his introduction to the major leagues. His colleagues agree. "If money is your god, you can for get no-limit poker, because it's going to hurt you too much to turn loose of it," said Jack Straus, a high roller who was down to his last $40 a decade or so ago and who bet his way out of privation...