Word: stan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Opportunity Calling catalog, and, in her opinion, "you would have to make an exhorbitant amount of calls for it to be of any use." AT&T's Terry Romano countered, saying that $5 credits for Levi's jeans were among the items of possible interest to students. However, Stan Sesser, west coast editor of Consumer Reports, called the service "a real hassle" and said it was pointless to "buy a more expensive telephone service in order to get a cheaper blender." With the number of calls her family made, Lawrence said "we maybe qualified for a clothesline...
...Manager Jim Frey, a minor-league batting champion of 1957, used to soak his bats in motor oil, an appropriate balm for one whose travels led him practically everywhere but to the major leagues. While awaiting promotion with the St. Louis Cardinals, though, Frey once drew near enough to Stan Musial to hear a definition of a doubleheader that stayed with him. "That's when Stanley can get ten hits in one day!" Musial exclaimed. "Think of it, ten hits!" On such optimum expectations, all Cubdom is founded, even in the after-math of three season-ending losses...
Jeff Clark, the first Harvard freshman ever to wrestle in the Nationals met the same late Bausano when he lost to unseeded Stan Vimstrong of Boise State...
SALEM, MASS. What better place for a few Shakespeare puns to get things rolling? Or at least so conclude Joe Mamma (Jonathan Shapiro) and Stan Byerman (Christopher Charron), the slapstick odd couple who guide the more than three-hour production--albeit with intoxicated intermission--to a safe landing Joe and Stan banter about the bard while awaiting death at the hands of the prim. Puritan populace. In the lively opener, the straightlaced settlers musically proclaim that they have "A Lot at Stake," and then get down to the serious business of witch hunting...
...trotted the final 200 yds. along an elevated bridge to Canton's ultramodern White Swan Hotel, the slight, blond runner was greeted by Guangdong province sports officials and svelte Chinese maidens in green cheongsams. But for Georgia's Stan Cottrell, 41, the greatest reward last week was simply finishing the 2,125-mile Great Friendship Run he had begun 53 days earlier from the Great Wall of China, northwest of Peking. "I call this a miracle run," said Cottrell, who held U.S. and Chinese flags as he was presented with a brown cloisonne trophy...