Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyway, to make a long story short, near the end of the week, President Bok, a known jazz fan himself, invited a bunch of resident musicologists and other dignitaries to a fancy cocktail party/reception (not very fancy, there was no Canadian Club) in honor of Hubbard...
...support is amazingly soft. For example, most tallies give the President all of New Jersey's 67 delegates because a pro-Ford "uncommitted" slate swept the state primary; but six to ten New Jersey delegates stand to vote for Reagan anyway. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, a Ford fan, has surveyed all the state delegations and concludes that some 55 Ford delegates are wavering and vulnerable to Reagan. The challenger's aides claim that they have already lured away some delegates who are committed to Ford but are not legally bound to vote...
...jogger. Besides frequent patches of straight autobiography, there are countless obligatory examples of the disguised autobiography known as the nostalgia-trivia game, including a play-byplay account of how Howard Ehmke almost (but not quite) pitched a no-hit game for the Red Sox on May 28, 1924. A fan as in fanatic, Michener further demonstrates the dread total recall of Jock Lit in reporting his meetings with everybody from Montreal Canadiens Goalie Ken Dryden to Fleurette Rigby, a four-year-old minicar racer...
Never tell a baseball fan that money cannot buy sappiness. By the time two of the game's richest teams and its most eccentric owner were through with what is already in the record books as the Tuesday Night Massacre, the only question was who was making a sap of whom...
...sudden doing a flip-flop" because he had accepted endorsements from Wallace and Daley. Asked recently whom he would vote for in November if he were not a candidate, Brown said laconically: "Oh, I don't know. I might not vote at all." Frank Mankiewicz, a Carter fan, cracked that Jerry Brown's performance was "an exercise in gracelessness without pressure...