Word: starter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...START a starter? No one knows for sure. Officials at the Department of State -abbreviated as DOS, but never called "Doss"-have taken another firm stand against creeping cuteness. They say it will take an official order for them to start saying START. The CIA is keeping its view secret. Nor is there a consensus at Rostow's ACDA, which has a problem of its own-Congress is planning to drop "Disarmament" from its title, so a way must be found to pronounce ACA ("Assa" does not seem right) or have it revert to being simply...
...Expos went two up in their National League East championship, defeating Philadelphia, 3-1. Gary Carter's two-run homer off Dick Ruthven in the third inning proved to be decisive. Jeff Reardon pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth to save the game for starter Bill Gullickson...
...then there was Bryan Allem. I'm sure he'll be a nice guy when I meet him in the locker room this afternoon, even though he is probably majoring in Hand Grenades at West Point. Last week, he taught a course in high-pressure quarterbacking, coming in for starter Jerryl Bennett to lead the Cadets to a 23-17 victory. He graduated Summa-Cum-Touchdown in my dream...
Senior split end Dirk Killen is a questionable starter for the 34th meeting of Harvard and Army tomorrow at Soldiers Field. Killen tore a muscle inside his rib cage last Saturday during Harvard's 33-19 loss to Holy Cross, an injury similar to the one that has sidelined wide receiver Paul Scheper since the first half of the Columbia game two weeks...
...Finn--himself the mayor of the Finn hometown of Malvern, Pennsylvania--has every reason to be proud of his youngest daughter, who has won All-Ivy and All-New England laurels for her skilled field hockey and lacrosse play in her two years as a starter at Harvard, and who was selected by her hockey teammates this season to serve as co-captain of the squad as a junior...