Word: swooned
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Perhaps race is the wrong word for this season, since most of the contestants are running backward. In the American League's Eastern Division, the Toronto Blue Jays struggle to realize their vaunted potential and atone for a notorious swoon three years ago, when they lost a 3 1/2-game lead in the final week. Such a hex would be no burden to Toronto's rivals, the Boston Red Sox, who groan under a curse of mythological heft. The Sox, as their minions are ever mindful, have gone 72 years without winning a World Series. At Fenway Park, a fan holds...
SOME people are naturally happy. Offer them an obstructed-view seat at Fenway Park and they will swoon over the architectural beauty of the left field wall. Draft them to fight in Iraq and they will come back singing the joys of desert warfare. Send them to Harvard, and they will join the Crimson Key Society...
...post of writing CBS radio commentary for Dan Rather, she joined the Reagan Administration in 1984 because "I felt like Mr. Roberts -- I was missing the war!" But even as her speechwriting success won her greater entree to Reagan, he remained characteristically aloof and impenetrable. Like a teenager in swoon, Noonan treasured each presidential wink; when Reagan wrote "Very Good" on a speech, Noonan taped the words to her blouse as a badge of honor. Yet when a burned- out Noonan left the White House in 1986, her nemesis, chief of staff Don Regan, denied her the courtesy...