Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struck up a chant in the Lakota language. As each warrior passed by, he blessed him and painted a slash or a circle of red powder under the left eye. Each warrior then stepped into a white tepee, making a holy sign over the bleached skull of a buffalo head...
...professional sports, "expansion team" usually means pushover. The handy euphemism applies to a new franchise that is expected to spend the better part of a decade trying to "expand" an assortment of castoffs and apprentices into a respectable team. Not in Buffalo, however. In only their third year in the National Hockey League, the Buffalo Sabres have a chance to win a Stanley Cup play-off berth. There are three main reasons: Gilbert Perreault, Richard Martin and Rene Robert. Together they make up what Buffalo hockey fans call the "French Connection," the most formidable young line in the N.H.L...
Bobby Orr scored two goals, one from his own zone into an empty net as the Boston Bruins defeated the Buffalo Sabres, 4-1, for their fourth consecutive victory...
...above all, a keeper of vows and custodian of tradition. As an eighth-grader, David Lawrence would walk four miles to the Buffalo public library to read the Congressional Record. That tide of small print did not intimidate him but carried him close to great men and events. He promised himself that he would go to Washington and convey to others the drama of the great speech, the Government report, the official text. At 21 he made another pledge: "Not to drink any whisky, any coffee or any tea, so as to try to keep in training...
Died. Bessie Greenwood Brown, 92, operatic soprano whose most memorable performance was a practice session in 1901 that attracted President William McKinley to the concert hall at the Pan-America Exposition in Buffalo, where an assassin mortally wounded him; in Buffalo...