Word: checker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute penalty at 6:35 of the first period is memorable because it contained three possible infractions, may be the dirtiest player in the ECAC. Incomprehensibly, Petit even complained to official Bill Quinn about the call...Crimson defenseman Alan Litchfield has become the team's hardest and most consistent checker. Litchfield played a solid game in every respect and is challenging Scott Sangster as the squad's best defensive defenseman. Brown, 3-2 at Cambridge Brown (2-4-1) 1 1 1-3 Harvard...
Scott Sangster--Sangster probably played the best game of the crew, but he still had some problems. Yes, he's strong and he is certainly the team's best checker, but at 5-ft., 9-in. and 175 lbs., he can't knock everybody over. When he's intense, he's great, but Sunday night--especially early--he seemed to get lost for entire shifts. Still, he's the best the team has right...
...body of the film. These are truly gratifying. "We were doing rock and roll before anybody heard of it." Turner grumbles. We have all heard this sort of talk before, but a 1955 clip of Turner performing his "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" (later covered by Bill Haley, Chubby Checker, and Elvis himself) makes the connection between KansasCity swing and rock 'n' roll strikingly clean. When talk turns to Charlie Parker, the opening chorus of "Hot House" rumbles in the background, and Ricker treats us to the only two minutes of Parker footage in existence. This 1952 clip, with Bird...
...motorhome supermarket parking lot used cars carport swingset white rocks juniper imitation bacon bits special gum wrappers where in five different states he had lived the last seven years." His astronomical address, 14067½-C Oak Valley Road, mocks the idea of a coherent community. His job as a checker in a nearby supermarket by the freeway leads nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does his life. One night, appalled at the prospect of another TV dinner and more wasted hours sitting in front of the tube, he runs blindly away and somehow finds himself...