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...Fella [Baker] went to work for a while," Roby said. "We had to make an adjustment because we had nobody who could really guard him. We had to guard him with our whole team. Once we made the adjustments and took the passing lanes away inside, we were able to win the game...

Author: By Josie Karp, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men Cagers Topple Hartford, 73-67 | 2/13/1991 | See Source »

...programs, Williams would enact a state hiring freeze and sweeping budget cuts, including selling most of the 61 official airplanes and closing district offices. "You give this fella a whack at that budget, and I'll pay for it all and save some to boot," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cowpoke for Governor? | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

Take a peek at the guy in the baseball cap. Short fella. Kinda homely. Ears hanging out there like wind spoilers. Talks with a trace of a lisp. Looks like he'd be at home on the showroom floor of any Sears store in Middle America, moving metal. Appliances, that is. Be good at it too. Get you right into that Kenmore 831 series washer when what you were really thinking about was the 701 at 56 bucks less. But oh so politely, so that you later reckon it was your idea in the first place. Bet he loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fella Expects To Win: Notre Dame coach LOU HOLTZ | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...short fella is not so short, not quite so homely. It just seems that way because his 5-ft. 10-in., 148-lb. frame is diminished, standing, as he is, at the edge of a grove of young Paul Bunyans. He's talking to -- no, he's shouting at -- one of them. About the option play. How to execute it correctly. As he plants one foot and pivots decisively, moving his hands in a precise pattern that he's repeated thousands of times before, the young man in the football jersey barks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fella Expects To Win: Notre Dame coach LOU HOLTZ | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...always been a man in my life. I enjoy male company enormously, but I like to keep my personal life private, and I've succeeded in doing just that. But I cannot imagine my life without a man. I think when I'm 90 I'll still have a fella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with ANN LANDERS: Living By the Letter | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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