Word: diapers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They were evaluated in competitions at the National Sports Festival in each of the off years, and last July a team of 27 was selected largely by Coach Lou Vairo, a jovial former shinny player from that hockey hotbed Brooklyn. The star of the team, the center of "the Diaper Line," is Pat LaFontaine, 18, the No. 1 draft choice of the New York Islanders...
...precocious talent indeed. Even with two grizzled veterans from 1980 (Captain Phil Verchota, 27, and John Harrington, 26, both forwards) returning to the '84 team, its average age is only 20.7 years-the youngest in U.S. Olympic hockey history. Leading the offense is "the Diaper Line": Center Pat LaFontaine, 18, and Wings David A. Jensen, 18, and Ed Olczyk, 17. LaFontaine, sweet-natured and teen-idol cute, left his home in Pontiac, Mich., in 1982 to sharpen his skills in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he scored 104 goals to break records set by Islander Mike Bossy...
...deeper than that of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes. The Secretary accused Huey Long of having "halitosis of the intellect," but saved his sharpest darts for Thomas E. Dewey. When the New York Governor announced for the presidency, Ickes commented that "Dewey has thrown his diaper into the ring," and steadfastly refused to listen to Dewey's speeches because, he explained, "I have a baby...
Late in the afternoon, with the sky the color of diaper rash, you met Barbara Somebody from Tampa. She wasn't Cheryl Tiegs, but she was a woman. You were reminded a little of someone else, but that was in another country. You held her hand. She wore your hat. Then she got too drunk to talk to and you left her at Rick's Place, a saloon where Martinez was about to lose control over Seagram's Seven and Seven...
...found the grave without a search. He stood over it and reconstructed the moment when the child was slipping through his ringers into death. He prayed for a repeal of time so that he might hang himself in the coal bin before picking up the child to change his diaper. Denied that, he prayed for his son's eternal peace in the grave. It was true the boy had not suffered at all in his short life, and he had died too quickly of a cracked neckbone to have felt pain: a sudden twist and it was over. Gerald...