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...with a little hard work I could get the better of him in chess." And among the relatively few American women who play chess (in Russia, where sex roles tend to be more elastic than in the U.S., considerably more women play), male-female rivalry emerges. Says Natalie Broughton, a Chicago suburban housewife: "My favorite gambit against male opponents is Sitzfleisch. If you sit long enough, staring and pondering, you don't have to have a fast mind. The other person will become so annoyed and tired that he finally slips...
...S.B.P.P. has aptly obscure origins but appears to come from a Royal Canadian Air Force listing of fuzzy phrases. It was popularized in Washington by Philip Broughton, a U.S. Public Health Service official, who circulated it among civil servants and businessmen. A sort of mini-thesaurus of bafflegab, it consists of a three-column list of 30 overused but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from...
...basketball was how the day started and ended. From the time he was seven, he spent hours out in the backyard shooting baskets with his father, and listening to lectures on the niceties of finger control, form, stance, depth perception. By the time he finished Raleigh's Needham Broughton High School, Pete was already averaging 32 points a game and displaying an almost total dedication to the sport. They still talk about the time he hobbled around the floor with a plaster cast on a badly sprained ankle-and still scored 42 points...
ticism of the English Bible is as hoary as the Book itself. the year that the King ' (or Authorized) Version app, Dr. Hugh Broughton, an nt biblical scholar, wrote in anger to a harried court...
...from Bess Broughton's buttond smock...