Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was a 5-ft. 10½-in. guard at Purdue, John Robert Wooden used to fling himself toward the hoop with such desire that he once ended up in the fifth row of the college band. Today, his fellow coaches in college basketball have good reason to wish Wooden had got permanently stuck in a tuba. For defeating the Wooden-coached U.C.L.A. Bruins has become as seemingly impossible as shooting a winning basket while sitting down-another feat of Wooden's playing career at Purdue...
...magic, especially at night, when the beaches are deserted and the sand runs cool beneath your feet. The waves roll in, sighing at last up the shore. The sky glows faintly overhead and darkens at the horizon. At certain seasons, schools of tiny mad fish called grunion fling themselves on the sand to spawn; they come in shimmering silver waves and are decimated by grunion-hunters who scoop them up into buckets, alive and writhing and unsatisfied...
Ghost and Hammer. Archetypical of the new manager is Eugenio Cefis, 50, president of Montecatini Edison, Italy's largest industrial firm. Except for a brief postwar fling at private enterprise, Cefis, who was trained as an economist, has spent most of his career working for ENI, the state-owned petroleum syndicate. Known as "The Ghost" because of his aversion to publicity, Cefis became the shadowy, indispensable Mr. Fixit at ENI. After he became ENI's president in 1967, he built a sound management team by breaking with ancient Italian tradition and wisely delegating authority...
...Mitchell appeared impassive about the switch, however, his wife did not. Martha Mitchell has clearly-reveled in her three-year fling as the wife of the Cabinet's most powerful member. "I think it's a very bad move," she said tearfully last week. "I tried to talk him out of it because I don't think the President needs a campaign manager. It just breaks my heart...
They wreck hydrants by hacksawing the control stem or stuffing the shaft with beer cans. They fling bricks at passing fire trucks and often hit the fire men. "Burn, baby, burn!" they chant as their neighbors' homes incinerate, and often as not investigation shows that the fires Smith fights were set by rejected lovers or crafty landlords or teen-age torch parties...