Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of World War II, Crosby and his perennial sidekick Bob Hope were barnstorming the country on golf exhibitions with professionals such as Byron Nelson and Harold McSpaden. "Lord" Byron, the leading money-winner of 1945, and "Childe" Harold were then known as "The Gold Dust Twins." Crosby teamed up with woman professional and former Olympian Mildred "Babe" Didrickson in a series of War Bond exhibitions on the Coast. By the end of the war, over $600 million worth of War Bonds had been sold through golf tournaments and exhibitions...
...There was a lot of space on the bigger field, but partly we made our own space by beating Tufts to the ball," Coach Bob Scalise explained afterwards...
...Bob Flora of Northeastern pulled in fifth at 24:38, which was far from his best performance. Dick Hayden followed closely at sixth, four seconds later...
While sympathy cards are in order for Bob Blackman, who might wish that he was still at Illinois rather than on top of a hill in Ithaca, Ivy fans probably don't realize that the prodigal coach has only three starters returning from last year's squad...
...engendered on his team. He demanded respect from his players, but he gave it back to them, too. From a sociological standpoint Auerbach coached during the time the NBA shifted from an all-white to a mostly black league, and the Celtics, resplendent with stars like Bill Russell and Bob Cousy, were a model of interracial harmony at a time when there weren't too many such models around. While Auerbach, a somewhat modest guy, doesn't claim responsibility for this important harmony, he is obviously proud of it, more to his credit...