Word: feets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tacoma flash had no intention of playing field hockey. "My roommate freshman year was trying out for the team," sayd Seidler, "and I went along for the ride to see Coach Field. They were talking and I just blurted out, 'Maybe I should try out. I've used my feet in soccer, maybe I could play goal...
...them a call and get them down here." Seated just inside the door, a young woman asks all comers, "Are you going to box?" Spectators have to pay a $2 cover charge. Fighters who go three rounds get in free. And that rule about no T shirts or bare feet is waived for them...
...cocktail tables, while at long bars on opposite sides of the room, shots and beers are dispensed to small clusters of men. The room is dim despite red, orange, green and blue lights. Over one end of the wooden parquet dance floor, though, the ceiling is raised a few feet to accommodate spotlights of various hues, a mirrored revolving ball and two suspended slide projectors. On Tuesdays, four floodlights shine down on a 14-ft. by 14-ft. boxing ring, complete with cushioned corners and a taut canvas mat. After a few more boxers weigh in on the thigh-high...
...next bout, 182-lb. Slaymaker, fighting in blue-denim overalls and bare feet, faces Gerard Ranare, a younger (20) fighter of the same weight. Slaymaker, like McDoniels before him, is slowed by his prefight drinking; Ranare is pure concentration. He bloodies Slaymaker's nose with a right uppercut, and the fight is stopped by the referee. Slaymaker is helped to his feet, congratulates Ranare with a hug, and a forced smile...
...overseer of the guidelines, he would be in charge of much greater Government intervention in the private economy. But Kahn has built a towering reputation in Washington as a bureaucrat who gets things done. A vastly energetic but informal official who often pads about his office in stocking feet, Kahn is a trained economist who believes that the greatest challenge to his profession "is deciding not what the ultimate, economically rational equilibrium should look like, but what is economically rational in an irrational world and how best to get from here to there." At week...