Word: yore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pete Rose ever grows up, we will all grow old, and if Carl Yastrzemski ever grows old, well... well, it's over, that's all. The summer has been improved by the improvement of Yastrzemski, a Yaz of yore again and almost 43. At 41, Rose is just Rose, which Gertrude Stein somehow knew before The Sporting News. In the recordbook, they stand first and second among active players in games played, at-bats, hits, singles, doubles, extra base hits, total bases and runs scored. Their teams, the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, stand thicker than pine...
When the first Teirier shot of the game went by Lau on the next run down the ice, already it looked like this was to be B.U.'s night. Open the door for these Terriers, much like the Terriers of Beanpot yore, and they would put a puck through it. Harvard, meanwhile, was still struggling to get the key in the hole...
...Michael Watson tally off a Greg Olson pass from behind the net less than a minute later, most of the last 40 minutes featured the Harvard defensement chasing Joose pucks in their own zone, and the Terriers failing to turn it on as they did in the days of yore. Not'the traditionally exciting stuff...
...surprise in Washington when they agreed that sooner or later the U.S. would have to deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization, as the search for Middle East peace resumed in the wake of Sadat's death. Jody Powell found himself running the Xerox machine as in days of yore. And some travelers thought they saw in Rosalynn's eyes a longing for the old grandeur. So it went, on the most remarkable jet journey of our time...
...Gramm-Latta resolution. These Congressmen, banded together in the Conservative Democratic Forum, are electoral descendants of the Dixie Democrats who ran Congress through the 1950s; the overwhelming majority of the 47 C.D.F. members are from the Old South.* But they resemble the Southern barons of yore in no other...