Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind first-string signal-caller Burke St. John, who had recently returned to action following a season-opener knee injury that his doctors thought might sideline him for the year, the Crimson assumed its battle stations before 72,000 spectators and did what no other team had managed against Yale...
Edna's character desentimentalizes a movie that tends to get a little too homey. After all, it takes place in Kansas, and there's no place like Kansas. The string-heavy score and schmaltzy touches--like the abandoned dog who becomes Edna's loyal companion--plus some drawn-out healing sequences, fall into the category of melodrama...
With its current string of Super Bowl and World Series victories, Pennsylvania has been dubbed the state of champions. But this fall's senatorial contest could easily damage its reputation...
...Bible, which never strays more than a half a foot or so away from his right hand. "I am a citizen first, a pastor second," Michael says. Above all, he is a Christian; but he distinguishes his strain of Baptism from the "gray nebulous" of Christian sects, using a string of adjectives that pop up over and over again: fundamentalist, Bible-believing, born-again, saved. As a citizen, he has always kept up on the issues, voted, written to his congressmen. As a Christian, he--along with the other members of the six-month-old Massachusetts Moral Majority executive board...
...Fedorenko, 73, has spent most of his 31 years in the U.S. as a Connecticut foundry worker. He has paid taxes and minded his own business, and in 1970 he became a citizen. Then, in 1978, he found himself in a courtroom in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., listening to a string of witnesses swear that during World War II he had whipped and shot Jews at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. The former guard was not on trial for war crimes, but for concealing his Treblinka experience when applying for citizenship. If the Government won, he probably would...