Word: fireplugs
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...Louie!?" Murray snorted. "That malevolent little fireplug? That broken toilet of a man? That Rumpelstiltskin sadist to whom everything human was alien? Who was happy only when he could make everyone else miserable-which was most of the time? Who gave new meaning to the phrase old meany...
Harvard's leading scorer freshman Steve Bartenfelder, the marked man of Tiger scouting reports, managed only a single goal all game. Luckily, though, his size protected him from the physical punishment saddled on linemate Rob Hawley and even fireplug co-Captain Mike Davis--scoring threats who often found themselves skidding across the ground, courtesy of a defense that measured close to 6-ft. 3-in. 210 pounds across the line...
...earlier, more impish days, TIME, inspired by Homer's "wine-dark sea," fastened labels on everything in sight and endlessly repeated them. New York's mayor was always "fireplug-shaped Fiorello La Guardia"; the city's newspaper, in a phrase that combined admiration with gentle sarcasm, was "the good gray New York Times." So familiar was this practice that Johnny Mercer parodied it in a Broadway show tune, Affable, Balding Me. TIME'S double-barreled labels came to a quiet end when a later managing editor, T.S. Matthews, forbade the use of them unless a writer...
Only natural causes could bring him down. The man with the leprechaun twinkle and the fireplug build was impossible to dislodge. A dinosaur in the age of the new politics, he proved far more durable than the glamour boys who had pronounced his methods dead...
Running back Tommy Winn also closes out his third and final super season on the varsity in Gayle Sayers-like fashion. An embarrassing day of 39 yards rushing would still vault the 5'9" fireplug to fourth spot on the all-time Harvard rushing parade, and insure him his third straight season as the Crimson's top rusher...