Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rarely seen at public events without his derby or his pet cross-eyed mule, Sam Lewis has been the butt of jokes in San Angelo, Texas, for most of his 56 years. People laughed when someone put a live rattlesnake, with its mouth sewn shut, in his bedroll at a chili-cooking contest. They laughed even harder when he tried to peddle Hawaiian Delight pizzas, a terrifying concoction of Canadian bacon, pineapple chunks and cherries smothered in tomato paste and melted cheese...
Finally, in 1958, the Bear came home to Alabama, the butt of too many Sunday-morning jokes after four straight losing years. Nobody has laughed very much at Alabama's expense since then. This New Year's Day No. 2-ranked Alabama plays in its 20th consecutive bowl game. The match-up against top-ranked Penn State will decide the national championship, and if Alabama wins, it will be the fifth title of Bryant's reign. It will also mark Victory No. 284 for Bryant, 30 fewer than the alltime record held by Amos Alonzo Stagg...
...porous by drugs, Pomeroy has withdrawn to Key West, where he maniacally stalks his old love Catherine. A man with a lot less charm or interest than the author imagines, Pomeroy is given to such gestures as nailing his hand to Catherine's front door with a gun butt. He is also inclined to flights of lyrical bombast: "They were pines that dared to suggest that islands are misery where brave horsemen run off the earth and topple into the unknown...
...Charnwood Road property, he did not know his sister was planning to buy it. "We were shocked when we heard about it," he stated last year. "What she [Marie] does in her office is one thing, and what I do in mine is another. We don't butt into each other's business." But as one Somerville politician noted skeptically, "Who the hell are they kidding? Marie Howe controls John like a puppet. If my brother owned a house and the assessment was lowered, I'd sure as hell know about...
When the city council of Woonsocket, R.I., three weeks ago approved some job descriptions that eliminated supposedly sexist language, a utility man became a utility person, whose duties included "building personholes." Ever since, Woonsocket has been the butt of jokes from as far away as California, prompting Francis Lanctot, a councilman, er, person, to voice his feelings in verse. Excerpt...