Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...player and theorist; of a brain tumor; in Palm Springs, Calif. Abandoning billiards for bridge when he was in his 20s, Schenken played on four world-title teams and won a record five Life Master Pair Championships during his 50-year career, as well as devised such now standard game practices as the prepared opening bid, the weak two-bid and the forcing two-over-one response...
Anywhere but the Atlantic Coast Conference, the game would have been dismissed as a mismatch: Duke, sixth-ranked basketball team in the nation and tied for the conference lead, vs. Clemson, wallowing near the bottom of the A.C.C. standings. Well, it was a mismatch -Clemson beat Duke last week by 21 points. Up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina clucked knowingly. A couple of weeks before, the Tarheels had taken their No. 2 national ranking to Clemson's Littlejohn Coliseum and been ambushed...
...smiling wife, two cars, a viable retirement and profit-sharing plan, a seven handicap and shortness of breath." McGee, of course, is the swashbuckling hero of 18 John D. MacDonald mystery novels who lives on a houseboat, The Busted Flush, that he won in a poker game. His aversion to structured, land-based predictability is shared by an ever growing number of Americans who live year-round on their boats...
...satisfied, Aulet made two more jump shots from the right side of the key to put the game out of reach. The JVs could only counter with two free throws and a jump shot by Martin to make the final margin...
...Jack Gauthier swam the butterfly, but during the dual meet season, he also swam the 200. And Mike Coglin; he was in the 400 individual medley, but he can churn out a decent 200 himself. Mack is ready to swim, and Hackett isn't feeling well, but he's game to give them...