Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First baseman Bill Buckner reported ill and right-hander Bob Stanley had to retire early because of a muscle twinge Monday as the Boston Red Sox began their second week of training...
...knowledge that behind the smiling stepdad exterior lurks a raging psycho. Family Number Two is struggling for a reconciliation, and the Stepfather suggests, "C'mon, honey let's bury the hatchet." Gulp. But all you slasher-thrasher fans out there be warned. The Stepfather would rank low on Joe-Bob Briggs boobs'n'blood scale; this is suspense you bozos: protracted anticipation laced with adrenaline, not gory gratification every six and a half minutes, Friday the 13th-style...
...stuck close to home, exciting speculation even as he shied from the fray. But this Monday he goes to New Orleans and next week to Florida, and he plans further appearances this spring in New Hampshire and Iowa. He has met privately with top national strategists, among them Bob Shrum, Ted Kennedy's former word wizard, and Gerald Rafshoon, Jimmy Carter's media adviser...
During his five years as a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Bob Waters, now 48, suffered more than his share of bruises and broken bones. Thus when he began to experience some shakiness in his right arm more than four years ago, he simply chalked it up to an old playing injury that had been repaired with a metal plate. "My doctors and I decided that, well, maybe it has something to do with the metal," says Waters, who coaches at Western Carolina University. But gradually, as the muscle spasms spread and both arms weakened, Waters became alarmed...
Whether or not Milorganite is to blame, Bob Waters is convinced that the 49ers' cluster is not a coincidence. He has launched a personal crusade to find the cause. Over the past two months, with help from Dr. Appel, Waters has written and mailed questionnaires to 114 former 49ers inquiring about their physical condition, medications they have taken over the years and any unusual environmental exposures they had while on the team. Waters himself remembers taking anabolic steroids, to add muscle bulk, and other drugs...