Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes a sternly parental view: "We all know that indiscriminate kissing, dancing in the dark, hanging around in cars, late dates at this early stage can lead to trouble. And that you miss a lot of fun with the nicer play-by-the-rules crowd . . . Kissing is not a game. Believe me ... Kissing for fun is like playing with a beautiful candle in a roomful of dynamite...
...both settlers and scientists knew that something very strange lived in the Serra dos Dourados. In 1955 an unusual frost hit northern Parana, destroying jungle fruit and game. Starving Indians crept out of the jungle to pillage the vegetable garden of the Fazenda Santa Rosa, a backwoods farmhouse. The frightened manager sent for help from the Indian Protection Service...
...Johnny Unitas, Baltimore quarterback, glanced quickly at the clock. In the next 2 min. 30 sec. he had to move the Colts from their own 20-yd. line into field-goal range, tie the score and force the first sudden-death playoff in a National Football League championship game...
Once the Colts got the ball in overtime, Unitas put the game away. He waited until the last second in the face of Giant tackling, hit his receivers with bullet passes, sent Fullback Alan Ameche the final yard for a hair-raising 23-17 victory and the Colts' first N.F.L. title...
...major colleges that gave him tryouts ("I only weighed 145 then," he explains). Unitas settled for the University of Louisville. The Pittsburgh Steelers gave him a brief tryout, sent him home. Disappointed, he got a job with a pile-driving crew, played football on the side (salary: $6 a game) for a Pittsburgh semipro sandlot team. Baltimore picked him up there in 1956 with a telephone call...