Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GROWING up in the Boston area, I always heard wild things about the Combat Zone. When I first learned of the term "combat zone" around age 5, I believed it to be a local version of West Beirut, with kaffeyedguerrillas running around throwing hand grenades and machine-gunning people...
When I heard whispers about the Zone's true reason for being, I pictured it as a huge, modernized Sodom and Gomorah, complete with legions of harlots and scores of sinners...
Flutie said after the game that the Patriots were able to move the ball well enough in the first half, but couldn't get it into the end zone...
This year, there were no last-second Hail Mary passes. There were no desperation juggles in the end zone. Just a smiling sophomore quarterback...
...well Joe is running," Lewis said after the race. "At the end, he had more strength." The bitterest frustration, however, came when the anchor man on the U.S. B team, running in a heat for the 4 X 100-meter relay, took possession of the baton outside the designated zone. That meant disqualification, preventing the regular U.S. squad, which Lewis would have anchored, from competing in the finals. Carl's still remarkable Olympic total: six golds and a silver. "This has been a bizarre Olympics," he summed up at week's end. "There have been...