Word: wings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided to expand for financial reasons. The league saw it could make money if it fielded clubs in Miami and Charlotte, so it went ahead and did it. Expansion teams put more players, more referees, more broadcasters, more advertisers and more fans under the wing of the NBA. More people, more dollars...
Freshman left-wing Becky Gaffney started the play by bringing the ball down the field and then centered it to Liz Chiu. Chiu passed it to Sharon Landau who backhanded it into the goal...
...America, and to be intently seeking it, trying out different accents, different styles of thought, as if seeking his own authenticity. Or perhaps fleeing it. Bush used to be a moderate Republican. Now, inheriting the Reagan legacy, he is constrained to run as a right-winger. He trumpets right-wing "values" -- and panders unapologetically to the Know-Nothing instincts in the crowd, but one listens to him always with a smudge of doubt: Does he really believe that...
Bush went from patrician Connecticut to the Texas oil fields as a young man; he has gone from moderate Republican to right-wing Republican, from one identity to another, from one appointive office to another, and these transitions seem at last to add up to a sense of permanent motion and quest, of search for something that is finally his own. It is possible, of course, that after so many years, he is closing in upon that something right now, and will discover both America and himself in the most spectacular...
...palpable. Her lingering reputation as a leftist, however, explains the fire storm she set off with a brief speech six years ago at a New York City forum to voice support for Poland's Solidarity labor union. Though the session had been organized by a coalition of left-wing activists, she delivered a biting denunciation of the Soviet system and called to task those who had not acknowledged sooner that "Communism is fascism with a human face...