Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proud to claim. "When Ray is throwing to Shoeless Joe, he gets so excited that he glances back to the house to see if his wife is looking. When Ray is walking toward his dad, picking at his hand, and, realizing that his dad is doing the same thing, he quickly puts his hands down. And his run to the mound isn't a completely athletic run. It's a little funny. There's some English on it. Those things are mine and nobody else...
...published put-downs were inaccurate, including a joke reported as fact -- that he thought Latin is the language of Latin America. Still, Quayle commits enough miscues on his own to supply critics with ammunition. Addressing the United Negro College Fund, whose motto is "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," he lost himself in a self-indicting verbal fog: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind. How true that...
...said he hurt himself shooing a raccoon away from a garbage can. Whether the raccoon had a Mob connection was a matter of speculation, but McLain was definitely the garbage can. When his bookmaking sideline was uncovered, he blurted, "My biggest crime is stupidity." Actually, it was just the thing at which he was most accomplished...
...Cincinnati, where Procter goes on associating with Gamble, the Reds are still waiting to learn whether Rose bet on Thoroughbreds or himself. All around, the Lotto jingles play accompaniment to the mystery. At the next World Series, whether Rose is there or not, one thing is sure. The mayors of the competing towns will wager a bushel of rutabagas against a barrel of pistachios on the great American pastime...
...factory a robot poured glasses of a local wine for a toast with Baden-Wurttemberg Minister President Lother Spath. Gorbachev repeatedly encouraged West German industrialists to participate in joint ventures in the Soviet Union. Said he: "Those who look ahead and take calculated risks are doing the right thing...