Word: gene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing, nobody that young at heart and that well known had represented America in Europe since Gene Kelly danced in the movie An American in Paris. The Yankees seemed reborn: a new generation in charge...
...search up and down Soldiers Field and find few athletes as smooth or gifted as George Hughes, Gene Purdy or Jack Hughes. You can attend scores of practices, and you will never find the devotion that Coach Billy Cleary seems to muster yearly. You can walk away from a Yale football game, revelling in the size of the crowd and All That Tradition, and know full well it's nothing like The Beanpot...
...rough-and-ready world of prizefighting, Gene Tunney was unique. Self-educated and fiercely proud, he remained determinedly aloof from the Damon Runyon characters of the sport's golden age. George Bernard Shaw, an avid fight fan, was more to Tunney's taste, despite the fact that the heavyweight refused an offer to appear in Shaw's boxing play, Cashel Byron's Profession. He believed that the playwright had portrayed fighters as simple and dimwitted, and Gene Tunney was neither...
...Jack Dempsey on a decision in 1926. In their second fight, Tunney was ahead on points when Dempsey decked him, then lost his chance to regain the title when he was slow to go to a neutral corner. Given an extra four seconds to clear his head?the famous Gene Tunney in his prime (1926) Aloof from the Damon Runyon types. "long count"?Tunney got up and outboxed Dempsey the rest of the way to save his championship...
...California. As time went by, Tunney came to be friends with Dempsey. The old foes were thought of together, two men joined by their past. When Tunney's death was reported, Dempsey's wife Deanna said of her ailing husband, "He is taking it very badly. You must remember Gene was a big part of Jack's life for 60 years...