Word: headful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make matters worse, the Crimson's nemesis--the referee's whistle--reared its ugly head again...
Novak was prepared to dislike Reagan, assuming she was cold, authoritarian, power hungry. Yet, he says, "I never encountered that 'off with your head' woman I heard about. She's not Imelda Marcos, Leona Helmsley or Marie Antoinette, and some people still don't understand that." Over eight months, Novak taped 250 hours of conversation at the White House, in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, at the Reagan ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., and, of course, over the phone. Reagan offered candid recollections of the day her husband was shot, her hospitalization for cancer and her mother...
That was in 1966. Four years later, as the young head coach of William and Mary, he took that school to its only bowl game. Seven years after that, he suspended three star players from his Arkansas squad for violating team rules on the eve of an Orange Bowl showdown against heavily favored Oklahoma. Arkansas still managed to win, 31-6, another example of Holtz's turning adversity into unlikely advantage...
...cathedral of college football, the names of legendary head coaches -- Rockne, Leahy and Parseghian -- still echo. But get ready to add a new name to the list: Holtz...
...this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property...