Word: buff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aldo T. "Buff" Donelli leaned back expansively in his swivel chair, laced his stubby fingers behind his head, contemplated, something in the vicinity of his belt buckle, and spoke form the right side of his mouth in all seriousness, "Why would I want to fool you fellows? These program weights were all taken last sprig and are about ten pounds more than they should...
...Freshman coach, at Pitt achieved the dubious honor of first underrating Donelli. He told the 155 pound kid from the mill town of Bridgeville. Pennsylvania that he was too small to play football. Buff got a laugh out of recalling the incident in his Newbury street office this week but Pitt grads still shudder when they think of all the football talent that was chased over to their intracity rivals at Duquesne University. The shudders turn into positive symptoms of delerium tremens when they recall the two tremendous upsets that Donelli-coached Duquesne pulled on the then potent Panthers...
Crimson A and B squads spent a full hour trying out various defenses against a Yardling eleven which operated from Buff Donelli's winged-T formation. Severa! sizable gains, two for apparent touchdowns, indicated the need for more practice against Boston University plays...
Bare Protest. The fanatical Sons of Freedom broke away in the early 1900s from Canada's Doukhobor colony, claiming that they alone were faithful to the old Doukhobor teachings.* They became best known for their peculiar means of public protest: stripping to the buff in fair weather and foul. Religious pacifists, they refused during the war to serve even in conscientious objectors' camps. They recently concluded that a third world war was imminent, that to avoid it they must somehow placate divine anger. They also brooded enviously about the prosperity of orthodox Doukhobors. Soon, armed with gasoline tins...
...Gustaf. They watched goggle-eyed on the beaches as buxom Swedish lasses publicly doffed their clothes to slip into scanty bathing suits in full public view. Later, a Swedish hostess was dumfounded when the adaptable middies, invited to take a dip in her private pool, promptly stripped to the buff and dove in. When she complained to a senior officer, he told her that the boys thought they were following the local custom. In Edinburgh, like their elder brothers in wartime, they had been greeted by street urchins calling "Any gum, chum?" Then came London...