Word: gaylord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 22 date has special meaning for environmentalists: it marks the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day. In that memorable 1970 mobilization, which evolved from an idea by Senator Gaylord Nelson, more than 20 million Americans, many of them students, rallied under the banner of Mother Nature. Their plea for action helped lead to the passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
...pitchers are dipping into the past, they are probably not alone. Commissioner Peter Ueberroth has been suspicious enough of corked lumber to order increased vigilance, and the bat of the Mets' Howard Johnson has already been X-rayed more than most frequent flyers. In their memoirs, the unsanitary pitcher Gaylord Perry and the unscrupulous slugger Norm Cash explained the rudiments of drooling and drilling. Well, almost every player today can read, and so many of them are handy with tools...
Mysteriously, and maybe a little more irregularly than by the decade, pitchers do seem to travel in clusters. Hubbell materialized in the swift company of Dizzy Dean and Lefty Gomez. Seaver enjoyed the prolonged fellowship of Steve Carlton, Jim Palmer and Nolan Ryan. Bob Gibson, Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry formed their club. Even Walter Johnson had Rube Marquard. "There's some safety in numbers," Tom Browning agrees. "Last year, when Pete (Rose) was drawing the crowds, I was left alone to get a nice quiet...
...Soloflex, an Oregon maker of body-building equipment, show a woman's hand touching such brawny hunks as Boxing Champ Ken Norton, Muscleman Frank Zane and Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast Mitch Gaylord. The headline: "A hard man is good to find." Says Jerry Wilson, founder of Soloflex, whose sales have jumped 20% since the ads started appearing last spring: "There's no way I can sell the product without selling...
Gymnast Mitch Gaylord was wakened regularly by phone-calling female admirers. Many of the track stars hustled to European meets to cash in on the medals, although quadruple Gold Medalist Carl Lewis pushed back his own schedule after he stopped off in Houston and found his home had been tossed by burglars, his stereo and video equipment stolen, his well-publicized crystal collection shattered. It appeared that the welcoming signs of kindly neighbors had pointed out the mark...