Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down Georgetown's 6-ft. 3-in. guard Sleepy Floyd one time and then worried whether his friend was all right; both come from Gastonia, N.C. Carolina Guard Jimmy Black had some rough words with Floyd during the game but only sweet ones for him later. And Brown, who mistook Wor thy for a teammate and in a horrifying misfire tossed his team's last chance away, stood up bravely to waves of questions...
After classes, we were free. Free to visit museums, to go to concerts and movies, to try to sweet-talk the lady at the Intourist theater ticket office, or to visit friends and new acquaintances. But sooner or later we had to be free to shop for food...
There are no women in the diner, or at least none with any speaking lines. Crammed into a tight booth and certain of their terrain, the guys can relax and laugh at the world around them. At the weird kid who memorizes all the lines from the movie Sweet, Sweet Success and recites them to no one in particular. At the enormously obese man who manages to consume all of the items on the left side of the menu--"that's not a human," someone exclaims, "it's a building with legs...
After a mean season, soft sights and sweet sounds of renewal...
...swift rise and fall of Fidrych puts some in mind of Mexican Phenomenon Fernando Valenzuela, provider of about the only sweet note last season and about the only discordant one now. But even Fernando's holdout with Los Angeles has been kept a fairly light quarrel. Says Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda: "All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was 'million.' " Softer, Lasorda says: "He was a big hero last year, but people are beginning to turn on him. It could hurt...