Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entering a game in which you doubt the gentlemanliness of your fellow player, be sure to hide your money-wad well. Pug Pearson used to lay his bankroll on the ground and then drive his car over it so that it was buried under the tire...
When it comes to this group, senior defensemen Jerry Pawloski and Don Sweeney direct a Crimson defense that has allowed 10 goals in five games. In third-period play this year, Harvard has given up only one goal. No doubt, the defense is one of the strongest corps in the ECAC...
SKEPTICS, THOUGH, doubt that such "troubled" teams are justified in threatening these moves. The teams which squawk loudest about the need to move to greener (astroturf) pastures are usually the most ineptly run franchises in professional sports. Owner-weasel-extraordinare Robert Irsay stole his Colts away to Indianapolis even after the city of Baltimore met all his demands. But even the most-loved and best-supported franchises are threatened by the machinations of greedy owners. The Raiders sold out more than 80 consecutive home games in Oakland before Al Davis took them to Los Angeles...
...favors classical music, seems determined not to mess up the good beat at CBS. His company has offered a package of some $20 million in compensation to persuade CBS Records' bearded, brassy chief, Walter Yetnikoff, 54, to stay in his job for several more years. The sale no doubt contains some irony for Springsteen, whose songs have identified strongly with U.S. workers caught up in economic changes beyond their control. But the Springsteen camp seems pleased that Sony will not change the management. "If Yetnikoff is there, then our confidence is there," says Jon Landau, Springsteen's manager...
Dying of alcoholism normally takes years. But before a final, prolonged bout of uncontrolled drinking caused my physical collapse and led to treatment, there was no doubt I was well on my way. My appearance was shocking. I was about 20 lbs. underweight and malnourished, the result of giving up almost all forms of food except coffee, sugar and, of course, alcohol. I was in the early stages of delirium tremens, the DTs. I sometimes heard faint ringing noises in my ears and suffered unexpected waves of vertigo. I felt near constant pressure in my lower back and sides from...