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Word: haystack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FANS who live at the Boston Garden know all the players as if they were their personal friends. They know the Bruins and the Celtics, and they know Haystack Calhoun and Killer Kowalski. Most of them know that a lot of what they saw these wrestlers do two weeks ago was all a big fake, but they come out in a snowstorm to see them do it anyway...

Author: By Marilyn F. Kalata, | Title: And Then a Woman's View--'Pathetic' | 3/8/1969 | See Source »

...watch Haystack Calhoun--whom I had interviewed before the match and found to be 620 pounds of the gentlest man I have ever met--sitting on some other huge man just wasn't funny. It was embarrassing...

Author: By Marilyn F. Kalata, | Title: And Then a Woman's View--'Pathetic' | 3/8/1969 | See Source »

...excited to have a chance to see Killer Kowalski and Haystack Calhoun, Gorilla Moonson and Baron von Sciclund in person. I thought it would be great. But now, being pushed and elbowed and jostled. I realized just how depressing it had been. Why didn't I think wrestling was fun anymore? Why couldn't I laugh...

Author: By Marilyn F. Kalata, | Title: And Then a Woman's View--'Pathetic' | 3/8/1969 | See Source »

...Goldie Hawn, 22, a former chorus girl from Tacoma Park, Md., is the resident dumdum who takes all the verbal pratfalls. In the thick of quick exchanges, she will giggle, shake her haystack pile of blonde hair and say in a little meowing voice: "I forgot the question." At first, her fluffs were a case of misreading the cue cards. Now they are part of the act, as when she bites her lip and chirps: "I don't like Viet Cong because in the movie he nearly wrecked the Empire State Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...Freestone and Webb that right after the sale she couldn't remember how much she had bid ($5,400). John and Elizabeth Harriet took a chance on a tiller-steered 1907 Sears Runabout, bid in for $850, only afterward discovered that their antique had been found under a haystack ten miles from their home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia: Going Old | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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