Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Against a flat offense and an erratic quarterback, the Redskins forced the New York Giants to punt on 11 of 13 possessions. Trent Green, Stephen Davis and Skip Hicks--all inexperienced backups on offense at the start of the season--did the rest in Washington's 21-14 victory yesterday...
...poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock at about 35% each are the Establishment heavyweights: Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, the state's attorney general and son of the late Vice President, and his G.O.P. opponent, Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul. Now the Body is a supernova in the nation's staid midterm elections...
...Miniature Golf Association of America (MGAA) was founded six years ago by a gentleman named Skip Laun who, Gilchrist says, "Is a jerk. As far as I have been able to tell, his only goal was to make some money out of the deal, which i believe he has done thanks to various sponsorships." Europe Gilchrist explains, has a "much more organized system of tournaments, culminating in the European Championships held every year in August...
...woolly worms are scarce this year, maybe because of the two-month dry spell, the one that induced the maples, oaks and sycamores marching high up the mountains on the Cumberland Plateau to skip turning red and gold and go straight to dead, brittle brown. The worms that have been found, however, are solid black, while the hornets are building their nests close to the ground, and the spiders are sticking together, weaving their webs nearly on top of one another. Taken together, these and other signs mean the coming winter "is going to be a humdinger," says Helen Lane...
...news media is being segmented in the same manner. Someone who wants, say, in-depth analysis of a piece of congressional legislation, knows to skip NBC News in favor of a more "high-brow" news source--a Web site devoted to his area of interest, PBS or "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio. Conversely, someone who wants to read salacious material about Elizabeth Taylor or Elvis can pick up a supermarket tabloid. These media outlets have been relegated to the margins, and hence have freed up the bulk of the media to what New Yorker editor David Remnick...