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...imagine I could be the smallest player in history," Henry Sandow, a senior halfback on the Harvard football team, says. "For my size, I'm certainly the baddest...

Author: By Robert Lunbeck, | Title: 'Being From East St. Louis, You've Got Badness' | 11/19/1975 | See Source »

...circle, disqualifying him on approximately half of his allotted attempts. "I feel confined in that circle," he says. "I have to learn not to be intimidated by it." Perhaps, but it is Oldfield himself who is the big intimidator on the I.T.A. tour. "On my baddest days," he says, "I'm better than anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Above and Beyond | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...junior majoring in education when he dropped out last December and began venting his increasingly eccentric views through a blaring loudspeaker propped in his second-floor window near the campus in Columbus. Until last week, however, no one took seriously his amplified boast that he was "the baddest ______________mother on the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Third King Tragedy | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...thirds of whom were black. One day in 1967, when Noah was in third grade, she broke up a fight between him and an older boy named Jelly Stowe. When she invited Jelly home for milk and cookies, Noah said, "Mom, you gotta be crazy! He's the baddest kid in school!" Two months earlier, Jelly had slapped Sarah Stalvey's second-grade teacher, and school officials described him as "very emotionally disturbed." But Lois Stalvey soon saw that beneath his bellicose exterior Jelly was a shy, affectionate and bright child. He had slapped the teacher, he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Making Bad Kids | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...known as the "iron pile" and is the pastime for weight lifters, body builders and ego trippers ... From work call to lunch hour, ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they rip off [lift after lift] until their muscles are swollen with blood and then, and only then, they strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Words From the Inside Out | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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