Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They are 43 and 41 years old, respectively. "The compulsion to play this game is something," Niekro says. "I don't know how many letters I've got over the years, how many strangers have dropped by my hotel, how many fathers have offered to pay me money to teach their boys the knuckleball. 'Can you at least show me how to grip it?' they say. But I'd have to take them all out singly to a little patch of ground in the backyard, back to the coal-mining fields in Ohio." By way of a video...
...spend more money on the public school system. He was referring to how "the President himself must become the nation's first teacher to help our people understand some very tough problems and how together we can solve them." Such are noble sentiments, no doubt. Before Gary Hart can teach us anything, though, he needs to learn a few lessons himself...
...while Harvard has tried to teach me of worldly learning, instead I have come to a much different plane of learning. Not of God, and teachings of the higher being, mind you; my moral reasoning requirement remains, at this writing, forlornly unfulfilled. Nor have I come to understand in my heart the clocklike precision and sweeping grandeur of design that marks the natural world. The cerulean dome that arcs above our mortal heads remains, as ever, a mystery to my soul and mind...
Mickey and Bobby do find some initial success. Their first day in town they land jobs with Booger McCoy (Harry S. Murphy), a big, paranoid toolpusher who's been pushing tools for three days straight, and Mickey is confident he can teach Bobby the meaning of "real work." Then the going gets though, and the tough keep coming to town...
Those who can't do, teach. While teaching a writing class at a local college, Donner meets Owen Lift (DeVito), a rumpled, childish lunatic tormented by his mother. In a conversation about how to write an exciting murder mystery, Owen misinterprets Larry's advice and decides that Larry wants to swap murder targets with him. He plots to get rid of Margaret, convinced that Donner will bump off his Momma in return...