Word: bibbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pictured clockwise from right: The "official" bib; Christopher Richards '85 agonizes over his time; Joel Podolay '86 huddles in a cozy corner; Amos Gelb '86 finds a bed of concrete; and Joe Murphy '85 relaxes at the top of Row 37, the finish line, Said Coach Parker, who also competed in the event (and lost to half the squad), "It was good exercise," Said Murphy...
...being the most humongous man on the team. Several of the Nebraska linemen resemble telephone booths with 19-in. TV sets on top. At 6 ft. 3 in., 270 Ibs., straw-haired and bottle-jawed, Steinkuhler is the tobacco-spitting image of "Herby Husker," Nebraska's mascot in bib overalls. Pro-football scouts are afraid to say how good he is, because he may be the best offensive lineman they have ever seen. "In Steinkuhler, Fryar and Rozier," says Dallas Cowboy personnel man Gil Brandt, "Nebraska might have three players drafted in the first ten." That such a player...
...order to prepare students for the factory of the future. A member of the Civil Aeronautics Board under Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Bailey believes the "stereotypical M.B.A. in a three-piece suit" may be replaced by someone grounded in theory and mechanics who might wear "grease-stained bib overalls...
...bemusement more than anything else. There are journalism professors here who say the Landmark is a personal journal more than a newspaper and should be savored as one man's meat. Brent Hackney, the Governor's press secretary, calls Windsor "Hunter Thompson in bib overalls." And the cable television channel in Chapel Hill has given Windsor a 30-minute talk show on Friday nights, such is his newfound popularity...
...hands properly swaddled, he pulls on a pair of cutoff bib overalls that bring back both the sharecropper's son and the slaughterhouse boy, and he picks up the tape player. Out on the gym floor, he throws his first punch at the wall, knocking down a framed quotation by former Heavyweight Champion of the World Gentleman Jim Corbett. Joe does not bend to pick it up or to read the first line...