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Word: wrynecked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particularly unsettling development has the sister cities of St. Pete and Tampa at each other's wryneck throats. Bucking nature and tradition, both have been bidding for full-time baseball, either an expansion team or a carpetbagger. Tampa has gone so far as to draw up blueprints for a domed stadium. St. Pete has gone much further: the skeleton of its dome has already been assembled on the former site of a gas plant (prompting a Tampa editorial cartoonist to depict the players and fans in gas masks). The state is growing, and Floridians no longer believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Place for Bright Starts | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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