Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. The last long football season gave Americans the Super Bowl and the super book on the pro game. Plimpton's prose is worth a dozen coffee-table books filled with full-color pictures of golden boys in muddy pants...
Situated in the bowl of an extinct volcano, the Arab quarter of the British colony of Aden is known as the Crater. Last week the Crater erupted with belching smoke from terrorists' grenades and bullets. At least 16 people were killed and 46 injured in disorders provoked by rival nationalist organizations. British troops put down street demonstrations with truncheons and tear gas, while the rioters threw up rock barricades across the dingy alleys to hamper them. At stake was the issue of who should rule Aden's 250,000 people when the British make their scheduled departure some...
...Ross, to be traffic spotters. Outfitted in snug, silver pants, the girls quickly mastered the special vocabulary used to describe the chaos beneath them. In the lingo of the traffic reporters, "gapers' block" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down to gape at an accident. "Spaghetti bowl" means an intersection where cars habitually pile up. "Carpool kamikazes" refers to autos overloaded with commuters who are not watching where they're going...
...championship trophy-a green Woolworth mixing bowl worth 49?-was then ceremoniously presented to the new champions, while one of Columbia's King's Men gave a rousing rendition of the Mr. Trivia Song-"There he goes/ Think of all the crap he knows...
...Elliott, the University of Illinois' football coach since 1960. Blond, still boyish at 41, a graduate of the University of Michigan where he was the only twelve-letter man in the school's history, Elliott survived his share of losing seasons, took his team to the Rose Bowl in 1964, was so highly thought of as an administrator that both Illinois and Northwestern offered him the post of athletic director...