Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...additions to the program were two boyhood pals turned professional soccer players, Mike Stricklin and Kevin Welsch. These assistant coaches provided Ford with examples of American players who made good, a definite asset to a program where out of 20 varsity players, almost half were freshmen and sophomores. It is also rumored that Stricklin and Welsch know a little about the game itself, although you could never tell by just meeting them...
After a brief interlude writing jokes for the Smothers brothers' and other variety shows, Martin decided to hit the circuit himself. In 1973 he made the Tonight show, and more recently has been appearing on Saturday Night Live. Says Bill McEuen, Martin's longtime manager and boyhood friend: "We're trying to assess each move to make sure he doesn't become an instant cliché." The translation for that is a mix of limited television exposure and carefully spaced albums. (On his new album Let's Get Small, now climbing the charts, Martin recalls...
...Francisco State University, says that as a teen-ager he always ordered french fries when eating out because "french fries" were the only words on the menu he could pronounce fluently. Says he: "So I wound up with acne as well as a stutter. That was my boyhood...
Crosby patterned his rhythmical golf swing after that of his boyhood hero, MacDonald Smith, MacDonald was the youngest of a passel of five golfing brothers who emigrated en famille from Carnoustie, Scotland...
...tack toward the windward mark 4.5 miles away. At a distance, they sometimes resemble two white tents set side by side on a field of blue. As Australia drops behind, boredom is kept at bay on Provincetown by the practice of underdoggery, a game I know well from a boyhood spent as a diehard Red Sox fan, living in New York and watching the pin-striped Yankees destroy my hopes for a pennant year after year. The America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery...