Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Tim Ford said he'll go home to Australia for the selection trials in February "depending on how well I'm swimming. I should be able to make the team if I can get enough training...
...Ford praised Crimson Coach Joe Bernal for creating his vigorous training routine. "I have a friend at another university where the coach took the attitude. 'He won't be around in the spring for the big meets, so why should I spend a lot of time training him?' Coach Bernal could have done that, but instead he helps by arranging extra workouts...
...halfback Mark Vignali, Harvard's leading rusher, from starting, and put a heavy burden in the early going on wingback-turned-halfback Steve Ernst (11 carries in the first quarter). Cornerback John Dailey still has fluid in his right knee; he didn't play. Neither did defensive tackle Barry Ford, nor linebacker Andy Nolan, whose deep thigh bruise has calcified, restricting his mobility. And Restic's usual backup QB, Brian White, was unavailable for action, suffering from a blood clot in his throwing...
Truman played the piano. Ford skied. Johnson rode horses. But Jimmy Carter, 59, had a more practical way of taking his mind off the pressures of the Oval Office: woodworking. Carter's down-home handicraft was on display last week at the highbrow address of Sotheby Parke Bernet in Manhattan. The occasion was an auction to raise funds for the Carter Presidential Library and the Carter Center of Emory University in Atlanta. The auction, which netted $320,000, featured two pairs of ladderback hickory chairs handcrafted by Carter last summer. Anonymous buyers purchased one pair...
...flat slap in the face. Yet a few days after Watt's remark, in a bizarre protest demonstration in his defense, a man on crutches supported the usage, citing other contexts where "cripple" is benign. True enough. Former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz forced himself out of the Ford Administration by telling a cruel and tasteless joke about "coloreds"; yet Dick Gregory could title his autobiography Nigger, and Flip Wilson won love and fortune by creating self-mocking black stereotypes. Context seems all, or much at any rate. One might imagine the comedy team of Butz and Watt barnstorming...