Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young boy in Atlanta, Chuck Fletcher used to spend Saturdays at work with his father. But Cliff Fletcher didn't work in an ordinary office building, he didn't run a bank or a store...
...Cliff Fletcher, general manager of the Atlanta Flames, ran a hockey team...
Chuck was never really cut out to be a professional hockey player. The day of his first game, when he was five years old and living in Atlanta, his mother sent him off to the rink wearing a football helmet. Cliff was out of town, and she didn't know any better. As Chuck himself jokes, "It was all downhill from there...
...When we got to Calgary, the program was far more advanced [than the one in Atlanta]," Cliff says. "I think, down deep, his father knew then that he wasn't ever going to be a professional hockey player...
...Without conferring with the [faculty], I telephoned [Bell]. I immediately sent a fax to his office and a Federal Express letter," Wisconsin Law Dean Cliff F. Thompson '56 said of his actions when he heard Bell planned to forego teaching at Harvard next year...