Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his boss: professional football. Kissinger analyzes the play as if it were a parable of war and peace. Watching a Miami Dolphins-Oakland Raiders game with White House Aide William Safire, Kissinger second-guessed the signals accurately until the middle of the second quarter, when Miami had the ball. "What now?" asked Safire. Kissinger observed that Miami Quarterback Bob Griese had not yet passed on first down, and might try it this time to catch Oakland off balance. Sure enough, Griese passed on first down-and was intercepted for an Oakland touchdown. "There is a lesson in this," Kissinger...
...Walter Scheel, who is also the leader of the Free Democratic Party, has the relaxed manner and quick wit of a Rhinelander. An adept mime, he delights in performing creditable imitations of other West German politicians. He loves to tell jokes, often making himself the butt. At a recent ball in West Berlin, for example, he showed up wearing a hand-lettered sign on his lapel that read in English: "Kiss me, I'm a Liberal...
...exclusive formal ball will mark Halloween in San Francisco this week. In couturier gowns and elaborately confected masquerades, the couples will whisk around the floor until 2 a.m., while judges award prizes for the best costumes and the participants elect an "Empress." By then the swirling belles will sound more and more deep-voiced, and in the early morning hours dark stubble will sprout irrepressibly through their Pan-Cake Make-Up. The celebrators are all homosexuals, and each year since 1962 the crowd at the annual "Beaux Arts Ball" has grown larger. Halloween is traditionally boys' night out, and similar...
...make him freeze up with girls in another way. He may start to think that if everyone considers him a homosexual, he must be one. Many schools compound the problem by enshrining the supermale and overemphasizing sports. The inevitable peer group yelling "Sissy!" at the drop of a fly ball can also start the long and complicated process by which a boy can come to think of himself as "different...
...game was marked by unusual plays. Luther Clark intercepted a long pass by Dunster's Tom Zakrzewski, then threw it back to Zakrzewski, who tossed a long incompletion. Earlier, after catching a Quincy kickoff, Zakrzewski lateraled the ball behind him 15 feet high, but Fernando. Gonzalez intercepted it and ran to the one-yard line. "Quincy was just lucky today," Zakrzewski explained...