Word: rooters
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...what does a rooter do when there is no one to blame, when he knows the team has no choice but to plod along? My hunch is he doesn't stick around for long to watch. And thus the Orioles' plight becomes a matter of survival, not of success...
...battling scorpions, stingers at the ready. Jabbed Representative John Conlan: "We are both conservatives, but our style is different. He uses a meat ax and I use a scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin of about 10,000 votes out of a record 195,000 cast, captured...
...Bring on the Bulldogs!" shouted second-year coach Jim Byrne at the final gun. But the game had an added significance for the Kirkland eleven. The team dedicated the victory to House Superintendent Eddie Chamberlain, the squad's most loyal supporter and fervent rooter. Supt. Chamberlain is set to retire after 25 years of meritorious service to Harvard...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra audience had mistakenly shown up, somewhat bewildered but nonetheless quite polite, at a baseball stadium. The crowd--or rather, the audience--was not so much enthusiastic as appreciative. They did not clap, they applauded; and if they did clap, they certainly didn't yell. A healthy rooter two rows back with a pathological hatred of Pete Rose was one of the few not intimidated by the surrounding patrons, who ogled her at every shout as though she had asked for Captain Crunch cereal in a health food store. Many onlookers had to consult their ($2.00) programs...
...admit it. You're an ardent, dyed-in-the-wool, never-say-die Red Sox rooter, but right at this moment, you're quite happy to see the World Series finally...