Word: fireplugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done by Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 21, a red-headed firecracker from Bakersfield, Calif., and Chuck McKinley, 22, a muscular fireplug from Corpus Christi, Tex., who has been nursing a bad back ever since winning at Wimbledon...
Golly they're cute. Bodger, for instance, is an amiably rheumy old bull terrier who can hardly stand up to a fireplug. Tao, Bodger's best friend, is a maniacally active Siamese cat who seems to think he's a dog. Luath is a big, dumb, blond, delightfully floppy Labrador retriever who pals around with the other...
...pound guards, Ralph Van- dersloot and Chuck Benolt, will have the tough job of stopping the Crimson's up-the-middle ground game this afternoon. But even more difficult will be the task of the ends, Steve Lawrence and Tony "Fireplug" Hubbard, who will be called on to contain Harvard's end sweeps...
...Harlem trooped to the Garden to root for New Yorker Jones. For other fans rooting against Clay was practically a moral obligation. Prideful Cassius was due for his fall, and they were there to trip him if they could. The lights dimmed. A spotlight caught Jones, a black fireplug of a man, in a yellow and purple robe. The crowd cheered. Then the spot swung around and picked up Clay, dressed all in white-white robe, white trunks, white shoes. The crowd hooted. There was warm applause for the ring introductions-Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano...
...midnight, the hopefuls were jamming the sidewalk on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. One pregnant woman perched precariously on a fireplug. At 1 a.m. the mad milliner of the magnificent mile, Benjamin Benedict Greenfield, strolled into view, bareheaded, nodding to women with familiar bees in their bonnets...