Word: stockton
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...competition usually create excitement, and judging by this standard, the NBA is in the nascent phase of a new 'silver age.' The drafts from 1992-1996 yielded a bonanza of new stars that now define basketball like the 1984-1985 classes of Jordan, Olajuwon, Malone, Barkley, Ewing, and Stockton did for the past 15 years...
...Frank Stockton, the writer who propounded this question in the 1880s, left the answer to his readers. He intended it to be a test of character. Stockton said that the choice you make shows the kind of person...
...across the puzzle the other day in Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s new memoir, "A Life in the Twentieth Century." Schlesinger says that the game of The Lady or the Tiger became widely popular when Stockton proposed it more than a century ago. The poet Robert Browning announced that he "had no hesitation in supposing that such a princess under such circumstances would direct her lover to the tiger's door...
...Golden State that inspire those who were born or moved there. Painter David Hockney talks about leaving drab England for sunny L.A., where he captured on canvas the colors that shimmer across swimming pools. Writer Maxine Hong Kingston discusses how growing up in a Chinese home in racially integrated Stockton helped her learn about different sensibilities. Jazzman Dave Brubeck, who grew up on a ranch in Ione, recalls how he heard polyrhythms in the sound of a galloping horse. As writer and native daughter Joan Didion notes, "California influenced everything about...
...final match of the spring break trip was the only one Harvard could feel proud about. Playing against the No. 43 University of the Pacific, in Stockton, the Crimson pulled itself together and executed a 5-2 upset over the Tigers. Harvard won two of the three doubles, including Doran and Swart's tense 9-8 (3) win at No. 1, to get the doubles point...