Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of self-respecting sports fan, you probably know of Harry Parker. If you're male, you're between the weights of 140 and 240 pounds, and you're not deformed, you probably received a letter from Harry Parker asking you to try out for his crew. According to different descriptions, Parker is the coach of the men's heavies, God, or some combination...
...laugher. A choker. A squeaker. A heart stopper. The four-game series in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium had everything a baseball fan could hope for. It was high August, but the lead in the National League West had changed hands twice in four days. It was high August, but the teams sweating it out from game to game were not just the plump, lordly Dodgers and the once mighty Cincinnati Reds. For San Francisco has risen from the dead, and to Giant fans, at least, sweet are the uses of resurrection...
...most promising research is retrogressive. United Technologies is developing a "prop fan"-an eight-blade propeller driven by a jet engine. The blades look like warped boomerangs. They are more efficient for subsonic aircraft than the fanjet engines planned for the 1980s; on flights of up to 1,500 miles, the prop fan would be 40% more fuel economical, since a propeller is more efficient than jet thrust during climb-outs and letdowns. Even so, the boomerang has a problem: excessive noise. Furthermore, how can airlines lure passengers back to a prop after they have flown...
Every Lampoon fan has his own favorite outrageous moment. One occurred in January 1973, when the magazine's cover photo of a puppy with a gun to its head was accompanied by the headline, IF YOU DON'T BUY THIS MAGAZINE, WE'LL KILL THIS DOG. Off-Broadway audiences recall The National Lampoon Show of 1975, in which Gilda Radner playing Patty Hearst machine-gunned Steven Weed. Lampoon writers routinely savage Kennedys, Nixons, Third World peasants and American capitalists. No one, alive or dead, is sacred. The Lampoon's last issue included a fictional letter...
...have now lost ten of their last 12 games, and most of their lead over the Brewers and Yankees in the AL East race. Actually, the slump, albeit of nearly epic proportions, isn't such a surprise. The baseball season is incredibly long, and only the most ardent Boston fan could possibly claim that the averages would never catch up with his precious...