Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Okay, I give in, I need that linebacker bad enough--I'll give you the man you're after. But you're getting a great deal--he's the only Ernest Hemingway enthusiast I have left to bargain with...
Luis Guajardo Zamorano, 23, a cycling enthusiast and engineering student at the University of Chile, was arrested at a bicycle repair shop in Santiago on July 20, 1974. Four days later, a priest called the Guajardo family to inform them that Luis had been hit by a car and was taken to the first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard...
...martial arts. "It's good exercise and of course that's important. And I enjoy doing things with the kids. We horse around in the basement with this stuff and have fun." To show how much fun it is, Anderson teamed up with a fellow karate enthusiast, Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, for a board-breaking exhibition at the Capital Centre in suburban Maryland. Anderson, however, showed that punching lumber can be tougher than hitting typewriter keys. While a crowd of 7,000 looked on, the columnist karate-chopped a stack of wood -and cracked a bone...
...tennis enthusiast, I cannot see how he has contributed anything but bad publicity to the game. Anyone who thrives on the antagonism of the crowd and shuns his fellow players has deep psychological problems, not to mention a total lack of social amenities...
...with his mentor. He is also a homosexual. Watching these two English scholars as they struggle their way through their forensic and clearly intimate friendship is a delight. Early in the first act, Ben badgers Joey with questions about his new found friend, Reg, a brawny football and cooking enthusiast from Leeds, commenting. "My natural force plays excitingly with your natural submissiveness." But running beneath the wisecracks and put-downs is a strong undercurrent of jealousy, that grows stronger as the play progresses. When Reg finally appears. Ben admits to him that, "metaphorically," at least, he and Joey are married...