Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zinged a one-liner at 7-ft. 2-in. Los Angeles Laker Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Want to see my touchdown?" As it happened, the script of NBC-TV's Laugh-In revival called for "Want to see my sky hook?" But nobody called personal foul. Gable's gaffe is now part of the Sept. 12 show. Kareem, too, scores his share of points as a guest artist on the first of six monthly specials. When a crew member started chatting about antique rugs during filming one day, Kareem, 30, showed off his rebounding skills with a quick...
...surplus? Half a dozen plans have been proposed. One is to land the crude at Long Beach, Calif., and pump it into Sohio's idle California-Texas gas pipeline, which would feed pipeline systems in the energy-short Midwest. Environmentalists object that vapors from unloading tankers would further foul California...
...Series, which, perhaps more than any other factor, is responsible for the current resurgence of baseball mania. Angell captures those moments perfectly...Fred Lynn, his body limp, lying at the base of the wall in Game Six...Carlton Fisk standing at home plate forcing his home run inside the foul pole...and finally, Lynn again, in Game Seven straining desperately for Joe Morgan's single which scores Ken Griffey with the deciding...
...steamroller stopped there, however, when Philly muffed three chances to tie the game in the closing seconds. Erving made one of his few mistakes with ten seconds to go, missing an open jumper from the foul line. Free hustled for the rebound, but Walton rejected his shot from the corner...
...foul-pop misjudged by Rick Burleson, Carl Yastrzemski and Butch Hobson in the bottom of the eighth gave Texas Ranger d.h. Willie Horton the chance to drill a two-run double and lead his team over Boston by a 3-1 margin...