Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press row at Connecticut Soccer Stadium in Storrs, the members of the college paper make a chalk mark on the press table each time Morrone throws--and breaks--his clipboard. Last season the reporters were worried they would run out of table before Morrone ran out of clipboards...
...Chalk another one up in Storrs. Maybe even get another table...
...Olympians don't often look so far ahead or behind. They literally put the one foot after the other that the rest of us frequently talk about, tolerating a certain level of anguish for a special plane of excellence. They cover themselves in tape and rosin and chalk, and sometimes glory. They take off in sprays of sawdust and alight in splashes of gold. They're driven, until they're driven out. Olympians are said to have a glow about them, and not just the glow of beaded sweat. But they make others glow as well. They mention who they...
...television set and lodge in minds too young to understand them. In New York City a five-year-old and his friend argue about 1) whether there is a Santa Claus and 2) what Liberace died of. In New Orleans a boy in first grade shaves chalk and passes it around the classroom, pretending it is cocaine...
...game as well. Some banks, including New York City's Citicorp, arrange for their Visa and MasterCard holders to receive frequent-flyer mileage every time they use their credit cards. The variations on this strategy are potentially unlimited. Members of TWA's frequent-flyer plan can chalk up mileage by buying Glad trash bags...