Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upon the ability of teams to build a large and faithful following. And to do that would take more than just the opportunity to blow the mind of a gentleman athlete with well timed Bronx cheers and raspberries. Although tennis as frenzy could attract somewhat, what was at the core of the attraction was a slightly detuned version of the King-Riggs match: getting a man and a woman in the ring against one another...
...Hutchinson--the Tory governor of Revolutionary Massachusetts whose ordeal Bernard Bailyn sets forth with intelligence and sympathy--would have known exactly what to think. He's have had a well-reasoned, documented analysis proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the whole business was the work of a few hard-core agitators, and that the National Guard's deplorable mistake, like the deplorable war it appeared to safeguard, merely played into the agitator's hands. Unlike Mr. Balser, the principal, Hutchinson could have expressed this analysis convincingly, and acted on it rationally, with historical erudition and political astuteness. But to judge...
...Nobody's Perfect." Some of the President's hard-core supporters continued to defend him. Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina, said that he saw nothing in the transcripts that justified impeachment. Virginia G.O.P. Senator William Scott laconically commented on the President's role in the transcripts: "Nobody's perfect." Senator Wallace Bennett, Republican of Utah, criticized presidential critics who called for resignation as being willing to "destroy the system...
...flipper-dinger is made of a short length of cane something like an Indian peace pipe with a wire basket instead of a bowl. The basket has two wire rings, one higher than the other. Hanging from one of the rings is a little ball made from the light core of a corn cob, with a wire hook in it. The idea is to gently support the ball with your breath, and raise it from one ring to the other and back again without it falling...
...recent Supreme Court decisions toughened local prosecution of pornography, and the FBI now has 90 full-time agents monitoring interstate shipments of film. The real trouble, however, is neither cops nor courts but boredom-the intrinsic tedium in the medium since hard-core hit the screen. "A hard-core film today is as strictly constructed as a medieval morality play," Friedman complains. "There are just so many positions you can film...