Word: tears
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bottom of the second, the Giants threaten a big inning. Singles by J.T. Snow and David Bell put men on first and second, and pitcher Russ Ortiz is safe at first after bunting the runners over. It’s bases loaded, none out, and impossible to tear one’s eyes away from the television—unless you’re Carl Morris, who is tracking the inning’s evolution on his expected-runs table. Only after announcing that the Giants should score 2.4 runs in this inning does Morris pick up his head...
...congress for redress. "I want to ask the delegates who they represent, who elected them," he says. At the nearby train station, six uniformed police watch from under a banner that reads "Use a Brand New Outlook to Welcome the 16th Party Congress." With a shout, the petitioners tear off as the police approach, leaving behind their cooking pots and the fire they had built to cook cabbages and steamed buns...
...count. The tingling feeling while watching effortless flow of basketball. The open-mouthed wonder of a hellacious block. It wouldn’t hurt if the players cared more and money meant less. Then again, I know that I’m still going to get chills and tear up when I watch ESPN’s video montage at the end of the year...
...riots, I was in the Phoenix Club, on Mt. Auburn Street. The anarchists from Boston were marching down Mt. Auburn Street. We were having a black-tie dinner at the time of the demonstration. The protesters broke the windows on the first level of the club and threw tear gas. I felt like I was in the Winter Palace. We went upstairs and stood out on the balcony—in black tie—and stayed there until it all cleared...
...Leon Higginbotham went beyond Socrates because Socrates was never depicted as shedding a tear,” he said. “The condition of veritas is to allow the cry of pain to be heard...