Word: errants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...western Pennsylvania championship. His college boards kept him out of Maryland and Notre Dame, so he headed south to Alabama and the ineluctable embrace of Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. No one has ever dominated the Bear, but Namath at least baited him to a draw. Bryant did suspend his errant pupil once for breaking training. On the other hand, Bryant's own mother would likely quail at the thought of slinging an affectionate arm over his shoulder and calling him "Bear"-a gesture Joe regularly indulged in. Namath won Bryant's sufferance by throwing...
...sure the public will agree that we cannot allow a handful of terrorists to destroy this nucleus of international cooperation and good will." Thus, the second week of the XX Olympiad proceeded under a grim penumbra cast not only by the brutal murders, but by sloppy officiating, errant decisions by Brundage's International Olympic Committee-and by the insensitivity of Brundage himself. In his brief speech at the service, the outgoing I.O.C. president tastelessly equated the slayings with what he called the other "savage attack" on the Olympics: the threatened boycott of the Games by Black African nations that...
...presidential aides and other senior staffers meet at 8:15 every morning and plot the day's strategy. White House watchers are intrigued by the prominence of Colson, 40, once the lightly regarded head of the "department of dirty tricks." While remaining the hatchet man who keeps errant staffers in line and dreams up projects to embarrass the opposition, Colson also now mixes in such delicate matters as the grain sale to the Soviet Union. He has a sign on his wall that reads: " 'I hope the Nixon people do to George McGovern what the Democrats did-underestimate...
...ration Internationale des Echecs, the governing body of world chess, he stormed into retirement to "plot my revenge." Then, 18 months later, he suddenly stormed right back with a "new sense of mission," entered the championship play-offs and demolished one grand master after another. Now the knight-errant of the royal game, rated a solid 5-to-2 favorite by British bookmakers, has at last won his audience with the king...
...news from the Jensen living room. The weather report originated from the kitchen area, and the sports from the dining room between mouthfuls of garbanzos and over the noise of firecrackers being set off outside by envious neighbors. Said Commentator Ralph Story, taking an oblique crack at the errant aim of newspaper delivery boys: "It's a pleasure to deliver the news right to the Jensens' door, instead of in the bushes where they usually receive...