Word: wading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, that happened in part. But some voters close to the core issues found a way to wade through competing claims of patronage...
...Wade Boykin, a 26-year-old stumping for Democratic State Rep. candidate Dennis A. Benzan on the corner of Quincy and Cambridge Streets, said traffic had been "a little slow...
...began my year as Justice LEWIS POWELL's law clerk, my co-clerks and I asked him at lunch to discuss his views on abortion. Powell was a true conservative and a product of Mr. Jefferson's Virginia. Why, then, did he join the majority in Roe v. Wade? His answer wasn't about constitutional theory or the "Framers' Intent." Instead, he told the story of a young, black messenger at his old law firm in Richmond. The youth came to him terrified that he would be arrested for the death of his girlfriend, whom he'd helped...
...Palmer, a Hall of Fame pitcher, calls Maddux "a master at late movement," a baseballese way of saying his pitches dance away at the end, eluding the bat when it's already flying forward. He connives to throw, from the same unhurried motion, at a wide variety of speeds. Wade Boggs once called Maddux "the David Copperfield of pitchers"--and he was thinking magic, not Dickens...
Once I happened to be on the field at Yankee Stadium before game time when the players were warming up. Wade Boggs and Don Mattingly tossed a ball between them without a trace of effort, bodies rearing up and pivoting gently in a casual parody of a pitcher's full windup toward the plate. Every easy toss was delivered at a speed greater than a good high school fastball pitcher could generate. Thwack, thwack, thwack in the leather. And the silence between the men on the field. It was interesting to note that even at their level, this was still...