Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another Jelke, Brody's Uncle Mickey, enjoyed brief fame in 1955, when he was convicted of running an expensive call-girl service on Manhattan's East Side...
Thanks to your article, I know now that Nicky-poo is real. A real egocentric who uses his fire-eating "social commentary" and the fame (?) deriving therefrom as a lever to get himself little pay raises from his imbecilic capitalist employers. A real armchair revolutionary...
...called "Brud," a nickname for "brother" that his sisters hung on him years ago. A husky (230 Ibs.) six-footer, he still carries himself with the agility of a man who was twice an All-America end at Cornell and was elected in 1965 to the Football Hall of Fame...
...well organized, smoothly operated and rigidly controlled, that the Authorized National Academic Limelighter on Campus, "The Scribbler's Club," was unable to find a Fault for correction or a Correction to Fault. Club Members, though deeply shamed by the notorious Obscurity of their staid University, were helpless to bring Fame...
...spring the sunshine, and the better horses come up from Florida. Suffolk Downs will open on April 4 this year. A few subway stops on the MBTA beyond Airport, the Downs offers the best in New England racing. Last year Bill Veeck of St. Louis Browns fame staged the longest and biggest ($200,000 added) turf race in America, Veeck also gave away prizes to the fans- a steer, a horse, champagne, and free dinners at MacDonalds...