Word: bagfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across the Eliot House courtyard and teed up a Titleist before the banks of the Charles. I performed the functions of Spence's caddy, looking somewhat like a hod carrier for a bricklayer. With only a chorus of quizzical birds watching, Spence unsheathed a nine-iron from his bag and sent the first shot of spring skittering across the Charles. To paraphrase Jos Sedley in Vanity Fair: "Gad, there we were, singing away like--a robin...
Dundee soon discovered just how good his young charge was. The strident gym voice softens, as if remembering something rare and lovely: "Oh, yes, I knew I had a winner. Of all the fighters I've ever known, only he could make the heavy bag sing when he hit it. I used to hear him make it snap like a snare drum every time I came up the stairs...
...under a maroon-and-white bathrobe. His 18-month-old daughter's doll lay near by, and from the next room came the laughter of his third wife, Veronica, and another daughter. The room filled gradually with relatives, gym figures, musicians, sycophants, friends. His dietician entered, carrying a bushel bag of carrots. The champ suddenly clucked. Everyone jumped. This sound of a popping champagne cork is Ali's command signal. It was a summons for his infant daughter, Laila, dutifully brought in by her nanny and admired by the claque...
...upper surface (and thus invisible to the scanning eye), the computer signals that it has not charged for that merchandise; it will then be added manually to the bill by the check-out clerk. In handling produce that must be weighed, the computer reads the code on the plastic bag containing, say, a half-dozen Delicious apples, but delays ringing up the charge until the bag has been placed on the computer-connected check-out scale. Then, programmed with the price per lb., it calculates and prints out the cost; this largely eliminates the time-consuming process of clerkly computation...
...impressed by Spinks's stamina. "Even at the end of the fight Spinks could still break Ali's rhythm and put him on the ropes when he wanted. Hitting Ali against the ropes usually tires out other guys like Ron Lyle and George Foreman. But Spinks pounded the heavy bag for nine rounds in training--and that's hard to do. It seems like Ali almost named his successor last night...