Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Derek Sanderson, the Boston Bruins' flamboyant center who made $1 million in a brief fling in the new World Hockey Association, formally returned yesterday to the National Hockey League's defending but slumping Champions...
Died. Roy Ruggles Johnson, 89, former newsman and radio broadcaster whose 1913 scoop for the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram exposed Jim Thorpe's minor fling in professional baseball, causing the athlete to lose his two 1912 Olympic gold medals; in Worcester...
...lofty wages (except to high executives) because they can offer employees free skiing and sometimes free room and board. Still, they have payrolls the size of small telephone books-and for every job there are ten eager applicants, many of them temporary college dropouts looking for a fling on the slopes. The average pretax profit margin for the nation's ski areas last year was about 4% on revenues, or less than their owners would enjoy if they put their money in savings accounts...
After a hard day on the battlements, medieval warriors used to unwind with a spirited round or two. The Pilgrim fathers had at it on the Mayflower. And even good King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth were known to have had a fling. Over the centuries, the venerable game of darts became such a craze, in fact, that in 1939, on the eve of World War II, the British House of Commons engaged in a heated debate over the banning of darts in Scottish pubs. Darting not only fostered "ne'er-do-wellism," a Scottish magistrate...
Nowhere is it more apparent that the 1960s have ended than in the offices of the Committee to Re-Elect the President. For it was Nixon himself, a boring heavy-handed politician--a man who conveys all the warmth and personality of an armadillo--who ended the 1960s fling with charismatic politics. His election symbolized the revenge of the unbeautiful. Richard Nixon, bless his heart, was a loser...