Word: hanke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hank Aaron's autobiography, I Had a Hammer (HarperCollins; $21.95), written with Lonnie Wheeler, is as much a provocative primer on baseball's race relations in the 1950s and '60s as it is a superstar's account of his triumphant march to breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home-run record. Aaron, who spent much of his career overshadowed by mediagenic players -- both white and black -- like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, can claim with some justice that he was belittled by stereotypes. "Because I was black, and because I never moved faster than I had to, and because...
...Smith in New Hampshire, Hank Brown in Colorado and Larry Craig help open Senate seats...
Cardiomyopathy includes a number of diseases that cause thickening of heart's walls, which is the leading cause of sudden unexpected death among athletes. One of the most notable victims of the disease was Hank Gathers, a basketball player at Loyola/Marymount University who died suddenly during a game in March...
...Barbie-Doll Treatment. This strategy -- painting a female foe as simply too sweet for the job -- is being tested by WMCs in several states. In Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Hank Brown dismissed Democrat Josie Heath's written demand that he put in escrow $605,000 raised for his campaign at a luncheon chaired by a Denver developer with the comment, "It's a cute letter, but without substance." Heath snapped back that Brown's remarks were "incredibly patronizing. Modern men and women in this country today are well past using language like 'cute' with a woman's serious request...
Country and western stations are also getting into the act. Disc jockey Ken Cooper at KZLA in Burbank, Calif., came up with several parodies, such as a twist on Hank Williams Jr.'s "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" that goes "All My Saudi Friends are Coming Over Tonight...