Word: sore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sunday, sitting in Leverett House library with his sore knee elevated on a chair, Hu was still all smiles. It's hard to hate football when you're retired. It's hard to hate football when you were so damn good...
...among those who jumped on Bob Dole for referring to the National League team that plays in Los Angeles as the Brooklyn Dodgers. I know what it's like to mention Carl DeRose, the sore-armed right-hander who pitched a perfect game for the Blues in 1947, and draw nothing but puzzled looks from people who call themselves baseball fans...
...members of the cast deliver lines with an apt sense of timing, particularly Rabbit and Heawood, both of whose differently-toned platitudes can be very funny. Perhaps the only sore spot lies in the admittedly difficult role of Lulu (Abigail Gray), a friendly neighbor whom Goldberg seduces. While she seems to exist only as one more way in which Goldberg can menace Stanley--sexually--Gray comes across as somewhat more awkward than necessary...
...Angeles; former pro-football player One of the most controversial athletes in recent times, Bosworth was an All-American linebacker at the University of Oklahoma when he and 20 other college players tested positive for anabolic steroids in 1986. Bosworth claimed he took the steroids to rehabilitate his sore shoulders. The incident did not prevent the Seattle Seahawks from signing him to a 10-year, $11 million deal in 1987, then the richest rookie contract in history. Football's rebel enhanced his hip image by sporting a gold earring and blond Mohawk haircut. The athletic career of "the Boz," however...
While I was making my way through yesterday's New York Times, an article on page four caught my attention. Its headline read, "Nazi Case Forces Italy to Revisit Sore Subject," and it concerned the upcoming retrial of Erich Priebke, a Nazi war criminal responsible for the murders of 355 Italian civilians. A military court had found him not guilty, on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired on the crime, but the outcry in Rome, coupled with an extradition request on behalf of the German government, prompted Italy's highest court to allow a retrial. Priebke...