Word: boneheadedly
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...passe for rewarding efforts. A lot of people want something they can see-and show off to other people." And then there are those who send trophies instead of poison-pen letters. One Marine officer, eager to express his opinion of a football referee, ordered a "Biggest Bonehead of the Year" trophy, and even supplied the bonehead: a souvenir Japanese skull, which Robbins gold-plated and suitably engraved. Another football referee, who was castigated for an outrageous yardage measurement, received a statuette of a referee with no hands...
...teams from the seventh grade on. Robertson has learned to work in close tandem with Jack Twyman (6 ft. 6 in., 210 lbs.), the team's only other established star, but he does not hesitate to turn his sharp tongue on a veteran who has made a bonehead play. Says Cousy: "Robertson acts as though he's been in this league for ten years...
...course owners should have at least one golfer in the family." Off the course, she keeps up a constant line of chatter, whether her game is going well ("Gee, this is all a crazy dream. I can't believe it") or poorly ("Bogey, bogey, bogey. Inexcusable. What a bonehead...
...doings" that so spun the Times's sports reporter that September afternoon cost the New York Giants a pennant and started an argument that may live as long as baseball: Did Fred Merkle really pull a bonehead play that gave away the game...
...days of the dead ball, he often hit close to .300. But until the day he died-in Daytona Beach, Fla. last week at 67-Frederick Charles Merkle never escaped the memory of that coincidence of time, place and official fickleness that came to be called "Merkle's bonehead play...