Word: tars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aloft just as if they were caught. In baseball, overt cheating -- scuffing balls, corking bats -- brings only winks, while the real appreciation is reserved for breaches in the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play. Billy Martin waited for George Brett to hit a homer before objecting to the pine tar on his bat. The old Brooklyn pitcher Clyde King used to twist his cap slightly askew in hopes that the base runner on first would think he was glancing over. King got the idea from wearing two left sneakers in basketball games so that the defender could never tell which...
About this time, geologically speaking, my curiosity was swallowed by a black tar-pit of nausea, and I left the Dinosaur vacantly watching Ronnie beating natives in the name of truth, justice and the charismatic...
Many of the paved roads in Kenya are crumbling. They look as if a large tar-eating animal had been chewing at them from the shoulders, inward toward the center line. A vehicle therefore speeds demonically down the dead center of a two-lane road, like a rhino charging. The driver waits until the last instant to flick the steering wheel to the left (British rules, drive on the left -- Did Moses derive the left-handed theory from that?) to swerve around the onrushing bus. The wildest animal on the road is the matatu, a jitney designed to carry about...
...South Africa, militant black youths first capture a victim. Next they chop off his hands or tie them behind his back with barbed wire. Finally they place a gasoline-filled tire over the terrified victim's head and shoulders and set it ablaze. The melting rubber clings like tar to the victim's flesh, while flames and searing fumes enshroud him. Within minutes the execution is over. By the time the police arrive, the charred body is usually burned past recognition. Horrified family members, who may be forced to watch the killing, are often too intimidated to identify the murderers...
...famous jocks are ossified as the Fighting Irish, though Hibernian-American athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks!," and tarheel originated during the Civil...