Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family going with her stealing and her fortune- telling--which amounts to the same thing. His sister (Brooke Shields) is a beauty, with a mind of her own that you never see but which Dave assures us it there. She is destined to be sold into marriage at age 12 to an obese little boy. Her betrothal exemplifies gypsy life for Dave--his mother was stolen as a child; now his sister won't have any say in her life, either...
...youngest player to score 50 goals or more in a single season, and what was his age at the time of the milestone goal...
Staubach's rapport with Drew Pearson, Billy Joe DuPree, Tony Hill and the rest of his fleet of receivers has been built, like all of his skills, on years of hard work. He has been playing football since age twelve, with four years off for Navy duty after graduation from Annapolis. Even in Viet Nam, however, Lieut, (jg) Staubach chucked a football on the docks at Danang. His arm is neither as poor as early detractors claimed nor as great as revisionists insist: just a good solid arm harnessed to the needs at hand...
...Staubach has plenty of laurels to fall back on. Aside from his college triumphs, he led Dallas to Super Bowl victories in 1972 and 1978. Yet, Landry says, "Roger is an unusual person-he loves football and doesn't get tired of playing it. When they reach his age, a lot of people lose the incentive." Staubach hopes he can play for another three or four seasons. "Life is short," he says, "and football is still a challenge...
...take refuge in a mysticism more appropriate to the salons of Los Angeles than the sides of mountains. To Bernstein, the sport is, admittedly, "somewhat crazy." But, he adds, "there is a profound satisfaction in conquering one's deepest fears, a sort of spiritual satisfaction which in this age of televised and predigested experience is all but disappearing." Bernstein's descriptions of mountaineering are not likely to move the sedentary or in crease the sales of boots and tents. Yet no one who reads Mountain Passages should have any trouble understanding why mountaineers are so addicted...