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...sport is poetry: when a bird sets its wings to come in to feed, it is "whiffing," defined by Webster as moving "with or as if with a puff of air." The hunters themselves have a more evocative term-they call it "maple leafing," a lovely image. To boot, the very names of the birds roll off the tongue like a song: pintails, canvasbacks, eiders and green-headed mallards, snow geese, marsh wrens, white-winged scoters and cinnamon teal...
...case of William G. Patterson, the highflying, unorthodox executive vice president of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank. While negotiating million-dollar deals in restaurants during the early 1980s, he would sometimes regale out-of-town clients with such stunts as drinking beer out of his cowboy boot or stuffing a roast quail into his pocket. In his office at Penn Square, he would sport Mickey Mouse ears or a hollowed-out duck decoy on his head. Patterson's lending ideas were just as madcap; his department invested 80% of the bank's lending portfolio in risky...
...years ago the Crimson entered the game with a similar case of depresion, having just last a chance to clinch the title in Philadelphia. Penn was shot war, 23-21, after a controversial roughing the kicker call gave the Quakers a second chance to boot in the winning field goal with no time left on the clock...
...Quaker drive stalled on the eight, however, and Shulman trotted onto the field to boot his second field goal of the day, this time from 28 yards...
...Steinberg miscue two series later let the Big Green right back into the game. Punning on fourth and two from his own 18, the Crimson junior kicker bobbled the snap. He recovered in time to get the kick off, but could only manage a 25-yard boot. And that was with a good bounce...