Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hank Aaron did it in baseball with home run No. 715; Jim Brown did it in football with seven 1,000-yard seasons; Mark Spitz did it in a swimming pool with his seventh Olympic gold medal. Any day now, Jockey Willie Shoemaker, 44, will do it in horseracing, riding a thoroughbred to victory No. 7,000, setting another of sport's Olympian records for generations to test against. By week's end "Shoe," 4 ft. 11½ in., was one win away, and well past the 6,032 mark set in 1966 by John Longden...
...screen some clean-cut radicals were holding their arms up against a wall waiting to be frisked. Al and the Lite drinker on my right discussed Hank, an old jockey...
...Agostino, also a wing forward, and back Hank Lauricella played strong games for the Crimson. D'Agostino, who is in shape from wrestling, scored Harvard's first goal and seemed to be all over the field...
Pyle brushed his face as he came up under one of the ropes and came almost to a complete standstill. After the incident, he finished the leg in 55.5 seconds. Brent Haywood and George Keim closed on their legs of the event but Yale sprinting star Hank Hook put the race away on the anchor...
...wanted an all-purpose arena that would serve equally well for football and baseball, a neat trick never satisfactorily performed. For example, when stadiums basically designed for football are also used for baseball, the outfield is likely to be so shallow that even weak hitters tend to turn into Hank Aarons. Charles Luckman Associates, the big Los Angeles architectural firm, decided on a novel approach: they designed a stadium that called for two large grandstand sections in fixed positions at the north and south ends of the field; the four other sections, paired on the east and west sides, were...