Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is the early summer and the light of winter coming, and baseball embraces both. The musical Damn Yankees is the story of an old man named Joe who barters his soul to the devil to be made young again and help the Washington Senators win the pennant. As usually happens in such bargains, he changes his mind in the end, and the devil turns Joe old again just at the moment he is running after a high drive sailing for the stands. He was a young man when he started out after the ball...
...thick, never making her "characters" more absurd than they prove themselves to be. Mercifully too, she has the good sense never to venture beyond her demographic. Reporting on the world of size-10 women and the actuaries who love them, she would be a confused soul indeed...
Every two years, Dow would give money to whatever poor soul the Republicans were using as cannon fodder for the campaign of the unbeatable Democratic member of Congress, Tip O'Neill...
Nifty Souvenir: All tourists must purchase the ubiquitous key chain, whether it is the one with your name underneath the picture of Mickey or the leather cut-out of Mickey standing next to your first initial. Woe is the unlucky soul who has the "unique" name (meaning one impossible to find on a key chain or other such souvenir accessory...
...find a mother lode of gold in the pool, enough to satisfy even the most jingoistic sports fan. But the medal-count table has about as much soul as the meter on a cab, the rate on the back of a hotel-room door, the total on a cash register--numbers that dominated conversations in Atlanta. When the women of the U.S. gymnastics team did something none of their predecessors had ever done, their collective effort, and the spirit of Kerri Strug, transcended metallurgy. They went higher...