Word: barker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Animal-rights groups have steadily gathered force. Last month Trans-Species Unlimited, an animal activist organization, staged its fourth annual Fur-Free Friday in 90 cities across the nation. In New York City some 3,000 protesters, led by perennial TV game-show host Bob Barker, marched down Fifth Avenue carrying signs and taunting fur-coat wearers with shouts of "Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel...
...problem that Barker can't--in good conscience--bellow, "And showcase number two is...a luxurious weekend in New Haven...
...doesn't Bob Barker give away free Harvard-Yale game tickets on "The Price is Right...
...guess is Barker never thought about giving away tickets to The Game. And if he did, he certainly wouldn't capitalize the "T" and the "G." In the real world, nobody thinks about The Game, excepting Harvard affiliates interested in honest athletic competition and Yalies still bitter over their Harvard rejections...
...game began mildly enough. The Bruins kept the Crimson scoreless until freshman Chad Barker hurled the first of his three goals into the net with 1:37 left in the first quarter to make...