Word: azusa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through elementary and high school," he recalls, "but as I grew up, my size made it impossible to go on." Known to schoolboy chums as "Cho-Cho," Okoye turned to track and field with ease. In 1981 an Enugu friend suggested that Okoye apply for a track scholarship at Azusa Pacific University, a small nondenominational Christian college in Southern California...
...Azusa Pacific quickly discovered it had a one-man juggernaut on the field. With a 34-in. waist and 28-in. thighs, Okoye was a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics champion in discus, hammer throw, and shot put competitions. And, in a fateful decision now regretted by many opposing linemen, he opted to try football. "It was strange to me, but I had my size, strength and speed going for me, and I learned as I played," he says. Azusa Pacific football coach Jim Milhon recalls that a teammate once jokingly brought out a cardboard sign with an arrow showing...
...most running backs taper off at 30, Okoye will probably endure well beyond that benchmark because of his late start. "Christian hasn't taken the usual hammering through high school and college, and although he's 28, he has the football body of a 22-year-old," says his Azusa track mentor Terry Franson. Now negotiating for a new contract to replace his expiring, $150,000- a-year deal with the Chiefs, Okoye stands to get a handsome raise. But the fans' adulation has not yet gone to his head. Cho-Cho still wears his Azusa cap, emblazoned with...
...more than 400 animated characters resumed a career that had made him celebrated as the comic foil of Groucho Marx, George Burns and, most memorably, Jack Benny. It was for the Benny show that he regularly played a polar bear, an antique car, a "Union Depot train caller" ("Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc . . . amonga!"), a parrot, a Mexican ("What's your name?" "Sy." "Sy?" "Si"), and the choleric Professor LeBlanc, Jack's violin teacher: "Meester Be-nee, could I have some water, please?" "Water? Yes. There's some in the cooler down the hall." "That ees not enough. I would like...
...lost the approval of his pastor because he belived in the working of the Holy Spirit and the charismatic Spirit were completely consistent with Biblical doctrine as he preached miracle working and healing. Soon after Seymour was locked out of his church he founded the large and well-known Azusa Street Church in Los Angeles, an establishment after which other evangelicals modeled their houses of worship...