Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weren't enough that we are subjected to baseball day in and day out, night in and night out, twinight in and twinight out, all through the summer, we now must suffer the utter ludicrousness of football in August. That's right, football in August--when it's 95 degrees outside and the players need to carry portable air-conditioning units on their backs so that they don't faint from heat prostration after running around wearing 300 pounds of uniform...
...himself to admit that even New York had its share of unredeemable scum, that bum was a nice word for derelict, that plenty of criminals were vicious, not loveable. And, in his whole menagerie, there was one character he never drew--the young punk who laughed at things that weren't funny, the punk who was tough because he liked it that way, needed it that...
Remember, this is the summer of the Olympic boycott. This is the summer of the magical moments in Moscow that weren't. This is the summer of the convergence between sports and politics...
...been born on the Fourth of July, he had been their Yankee Doodle Dandy, their all-American boy. He had given them almost his whole being in the war and now, after all that, they weren't satisfied with three quarters being gone, they wanted to take the rest of him. It was crazy but he knew that's what they wanted. They wanted his head and his mind, the numb legs and the wheelchair, they wanted everything. It had all been one big dirty trick and he didn't know what to think anymore...
...Mariners' wives. The surprising result: a home-town favorite, Pitcher Rick Honeycutt, placed second to Orioles Pitcher Jim Palmer in a ranking of baseball's top ten hunks. The criteria for the contest were a little unclear, observed Debbie Honeycutt, wife of the runner-up. "We weren't sure whether they wanted it from the neck up, the neck down or both." Palmer modestly admits his ads for Jockey briefs may have given him a below-the-neck edge. Says the 6-ft. 3-in., 194-lb. righthander: "I'm sure the voters have seen more...