Word: welling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Well, not really. I do observe the pigskin Sunday and keep it holy, from 12:30 per-game show to 7:00 post-game wrap-up. But for me, football is like Smartfood. I don't really love it, but once I start with it, I Just can't get enough...
That leaves (drum roll, please) the Detroit Lions. Well, why not? Their coach, Mouse Davis, is named Mouse! Neato! They play the run-and-shoot! Yeah! They have a Black quarterback (Rodney Peete) who plays...quarterback...
Bush noted progress on those issues and agreements on other matters--during talks last weekend between Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze--as well as a decision to hold a summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev by early next summer...
Twice, as vice president, Bush blocked legislation to destroy U. S. chemical weapons by breaking a tie vote. In those instances, the cutback would not have required Soviet reductions as well...
...double plays and, of course, home runs (homu ran). Aside from a few quirky exceptions -- ties are permitted after twelve innings -- the Japanese play baseball by American rules. It's been that way since 1873, when the game was introduced in Japan and soon became the national obsession as well as the national sport. Yet as journalist Robert Whiting notes in his new book You Gotta Have Wa (Macmillan), the style and, most important, the mind- set of baseball in Japan differ dramatically from those in America. Japan and the U.S., concludes Whiting, are two countries separated by a common...