Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dales, one of those rare breed of natural golfers who can grab a club out of the woodshed and start to play flawless golf, caught his drive absolutely flush on the first tee. On the other hand, Fitzgibbons, who is a slow starter, hit a tee shot that followed the trajectory of a partridge stricken in mid-flight by the hunter's shaft...
Many of the old graduates were also happy to have the friendly German on hand. The entire tenth reunion class, according to the Herald, the Class of 1924, showed up dressed in Bavarian costume, right down to the Tyrolean hats. The Boston Herald reported that "because the doctor had traveled 3,000 miles there was a Harvard version of the goose step, executed with as much snap as unsteady feet could muster ....An Americanized approximation of the Nazi salute replaced the hand shake...
...farm is not a commercial venture. Bergerac simply loves animals and delights in feeding lettuce to a goat named Dudley by hand. He sees no inconsistency in also being a big-game hunter who takes his family on an African safari almost every year; he considers Kenya the most beautiful place in the world. At Revlon, he has fixed up a sanctuary next to the lavish chairman's office: an African room decorated with an antelope-skin rug and a huge mural of Kenyan plains showing giraffe, zebra, water buffalo and other animals and that he can gaze...
...This is the greatest cancellation in the history of television," says Mike Dann, a TV consultant and Silverman's onetime boss at CBS. "What forced Freddie's hand is the fact that ABC has nine of the top 14 shows and the only runaway hit of the new season, Mork and Mindy. In modern broadcasting, ABC is the greatest network ever, and CBS and NBC are so far behind they can only fight for second place. Freddie was an integral part of the ABC steamroller, and now it's going faster than ever, rolling over both...
They begin turning up this time of year as reliably as gaudy lights and the Salvation Army, and with furrowed brows they hand the public a unique gift-clear warnings about the morbid hazards that lurk in the traditional seasonal celebrations. They are the jolly diagnosticians, and they dirge forth chanting their own anthem, a sort of Fugue for Handwringers, the gist of which is that there may be poisoned plums in the pudding...