Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow had barely melted from Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Johnson's skis before the brash Californian was burning up yet another course last week. Johnson's current speeding is not on the slopes of Canada's Whistler Mountain, where he won the final race of the men's World Cup downhill season earlier this month, but on the horizontal track at California's Riverside International Raceway. Johnson, who was gearing up for the pro-celebrity during the Toyota Grand Prix to be held this week in Long Beach, Calif., is typically nonchalant about trading...
Braniff's plight was worse than that of most U.S. airlines. Nearly all were ravaged in the late 1970s and early '80s by problems ranging from rising fuel costs to competition from upstart cut-rate carriers. Under the brash leadership of former Chairman Harding Lawrence, Braniff began to add planes and expand routes just as the economy was dropping into recession and oil prices were heading for another sharp increase...
...like a Titan's necklace, or pumping his arms in the golden suit that appeared welded to his body. Not that his outfit was wilder than anyone else's in this ice capade: goggle-eyed skiers in interplanetary helmets, figure skaters sprayed with sequins spinning in electric blues, the brash colors seeming to make a protest against the frozen season...
...timing was poor. Training camps were struck and Theismann arrived to cross the picket line of the staunchest union members in the league. On a grizzled old team that kept its own counsel, here was a brash young quarterback who courted interviewers, probably the first third-stringer ever to put his name on a restaurant. "I was 24; Billy was 34; who knows how old Sonny was? And I was ostracized." During a game against the New York Giants, Theismann impulsively replaced an injured punt returner, and that violent work became his job and his credential. The veterans...
Maurizio Vitale 's brash ways...