Word: wrists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps a social stigma now attaches to digital watches. People see you walking around with a bunch of numbers on your wrist and they get the idea that maybe you couldn't tell time otherwise. Never got the hang of it in school. Like reading with your finger tracing the words, guiding your eye. Who wants to be seen carrying a crutch on his wrist...
...other purpose was punishment, but this too has been eroded. Short terms in jail are a message to the convicted murderer that if he gets caught, society will only slap him on the wrist and let him back on the streets...
...coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew. By twelve he had command. Almost nobody could catch his fastball either: he broke one guy's hand, another guy's wrist." Without irony, Gooden's playmates took to calling him Doctor. Dan Gooden believes his son's nickname came from an infielder's chatter: "C'mon, Dr. Dwight, operate on him!" Youmans says, "It was just always Dr. D, or Doc." It evolved naturally into Dr. K, the initial taken from...
...news broke in a particularly dramatic fashion: in early January, Donald Manes, the mayor's close political ally and president of the borough of Queens (one of New York City's five administrative units), was pulled from his car, bleeding and near death from knife cuts to the wrist and ankle; Manes eventually admitted that the wounds were self-inflicted. Soon after, Manes' associate, Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former official in the city's parking- violations bureau, was accused of extorting $410,000 in cash, trips and theater seats from agencies that had been granted plump city contracts to collect unpaid...
Last week, Ueberroth gave 11 players a little slap on the wrist for their drug use. But kids will still want to hit like Dave Parker and pitch like Joaquin Andujar...