Word: guelph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popes since Linus I succeeded St. Peter in A.D. 67, 45 did not survive a year after their election. Six were murdered; one died of wounds received in the course of the Guelph-Ghibelline civil wars; one, John XXI, 1277, was killed by a falling ceiling...
...Guelph, George Wolbert, the Shell Oil lawyer, has spent four hours on ice. He is white-haired and balding. "What do you get here...
...warm August night in a southern Ontario town called Guelph, a dozen Americans are playing hockey. There are no commercial interruptions. There is no crowd...
...makes a save with his gloved hand. Jon Reiff, 38, a law professor from Ohio, spins twice chasing a puck but does not fall. George Wolbert, 56, an attorney for Shell Oil, narrowly misses a body check. These men have made their way to the Can/Am Hockey School in Guelph to play for the unvarnished joy of sport. They earn no money playing. Indeed, they pay tuition to hone their skills...
...Guelph sky has been a high, clean blue, the way boyhood skies appear in memory, and at the rink one feels a sense of boyhood. Of course, the men have me mix it with them. In full hockey gear -was any errant knight more burdened? -I skate till my back smarts and my thighs are lead. It is good to leave customary places and remember. This is how sport ought to be: play some, watch some, give pain, take pain, exult...