Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eighth round starts. The guys next to me have lost their bet. In twenty seconds Hagler has thrown a right and Fully Insured is sprawling like Dick van Dyke. The referee can tell that the next punch is a ticket to the afterlife, and ends the fight. People are going crazy. Hagler's wife is in the ring, jumping up and down, her arms in the air. His kid comes in the ring in a little three piece suit. Everyone is hurrying out. They want to miss the crowds. Hagler is holding his belt...
Luckily for those who care about college hockey, only close friends and family trundled down to see this one. The announced crowd, "an official estimate of 1000," was the smallest in Bright history, but as Herald-American hockey writer Dick Dew says, "they must have counted the band's instruments twice to get that...
...happened. Or a great deal happened, but nobody heard much about it. Bunky bestowed his own moniker on the group that evolved from the street corner, and, as the Sheppards, they had one halfway hit, Island of Love, in 1959. Then they played some live shows, turned up on Dick Clark's TV program and in the mid-60s just disintegrated. It was a typical rock trajectory: amateurs, hit makers, has-beens. But with the Sheppards, there is a difference...
...there were some sighs of surprise. The citizens of Bradner, Ohio, could hardly believe their eyes when they opened their utility bills from the board of public affairs. All were stamped MERRY CHRISTMAS! PAID. Explained Board Chairman Dick Fairbanks, thinking perhaps of three other government officials who bore gifts to Bethlehem during the same season long ago: "We were running a surplus, and this just seemed like a good idea...
...noted that presidential nicknames have dwindled in our century, from "The Hero of San Juan Hill," who sported 17, to "Tricky Dick," who needed but one. Either we are growing less fond of our leaders, or they are growing further away from us. In any case, it will be a healthy sign for Mr Reagan should the public start calling him Ronnie or even Sweet Eyes. TIME'S congressional correspondent Neil MacNeil recalls that when Mike DiSalle, then mayor of Toledo, escorted ex-King Michael of Yugoslavia in an open-car parade, the citizens called out to the mayor...