Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once suggest a Heian-period court, somewhere between A.D. 800 and 1200. The balls, woven with exquisite precision in raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic and pointless kind of football with no rules. The game consisted of several players kicking a bean-stuffed ball around a courtyard in which stood certain trees-cherry, maple, pine, bamboo and (here worked in gold thread into the red ground) willow...
...have given way to post-game interviews in the warm glow of a victorious team's dressing room. The strict vegetarian diet has been modified to include a Pacific salmon now and then. Walton has hardly become a conservative paragon of the Establishment; he still chomps bean sprouts and supports radical causes. But this year, for the first time in his N.B.A. career, he has been physically healthy...
...door slammed, and it was Reed Camfort, his roommate. Camfort strode purposely into the room, his L.L. Bean hiking boots crushing errant tablets into flour, grinding them into the carpet, leaving white spots. He walked over to the stereo, picked out a disk, set it down on the turntable and flipped switched. "The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard" flowed through the air. Reed had put the stylus down on "Mama Tried." The volume was set on seven...
...months) some of the nation's favorite brew has become really hot. According to an FBI spokesman, "hijackers like to keep up with the times; our biggest headache now is coffee." The FBI knows of 15 hijackings, in which the total take was $1,728,000 worth of beans. All this black (or, if you prefer, cream and sugar) market activity occurred in the Port of New York, which handles nearly half the 2.6 billion pounds of beans the U.S. imports each year. The local FBI hijacking squad is having a tough time cracking the coffee capers. Frets...
...finding that an ancestor was deported from Britain or was killed in a brawl (like two of Jimmy Carter's forebears) or hanged. On the other hand, the search can turn up sturdy pioneers and genuine heroes. One resourceful family organization, with the unlikely name of the Southern Bean Association, has recorded the dustups and derring-do of the Scotch-American Bean clan since its arrival in Maryland in 1618. One old Bean helped stir the Mexican-Indian revolt against Spain; another ancestor, Russell, was the first white child born in Tennessee, in 1769. The Clan MacBean tartan...