Word: bird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, Boston has no bench. Dennis Johnson is no longer DJ. Larry Bird can no longer fly. Robert Parish is one year older, and Kevin McHale...well, all right, McHale is still unstoppable...
...just won't happen. Reggie Lewis won't miss a shot. Bird will hit three-pointers from Section 100, and Parish will stop Ewing, like he always has. So, if you're Stu Jackson, what...
...recommendation should heavily influence a decision in June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service whether to formally declare the owl an endangered species. The designation would make it a federal crime to disturb the bird's habitat -- the woodlands that have succumbed to chain saws at the rate of 55,000 acres a year. Only about one-tenth of the original forests in the continental U.S. remain undisturbed...
...hasn't put in any time, who can sit comfortably in a chair, scribbling away, and who, with a few sneering phrases, can choose to mock and malign everything that took two months to build. No wonder you hate the critic, even the genuinely insightful critic (a rare bird, anyway...
...dispenses another bit of knowledge in the hallways. "We were talking the other day about etiquette," says World editor Jim Kelly, "when Bruce remarked that there is only one thing that you can remove from your mouth and set on your plate while dining with the Queen of England. Bird shot." That ought to merit at least a $500 question on Jeopardy...