Word: hoosier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, Wabash was little more than a sleepy hoosier hamlet whose forefathers picked up the town name from the local Indians. The Indians called it Ouabouigou, which means "shining white." Fittingly enough, in 1880 Wabash became the first town in the world to install electric street lights. An uninspired Ezra Pound pined away on the Wabash faculty until he was dismissed after allowing a destitute woman of ill repute to spend a night in his room, an act which offended the straightlaced morals of the town...
This transformation was wrought by Tim Kraft, the Hoosier with a Pancho Villa mustache who two months ago became the President's chief coordinator on political liaison and patronage. Kraft's job is to improve Carter's relations with Demo cratic Party officials and contributors, to help get the President's programs through Congress and to help get him re-elected in 1980. Although Kraft is one of the Pres ident's top staffers, he has re mained almost invisible. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports on Kraft at work...
...inductees are all deserving of their plaques. Rusie, the famed "Hoosier Thunderbolt" of the 1890s, died in 1942. He won more than 30 games a season three times and has a winning percentage of .603. Rusie was also the first major leaguer ever to sit out a season over a contract dispute, as he refused to sign with the Giants...
...nothing I once possessed and had lost; it was not a future forbidden to me." And so she was slowly wooed back to life. Eventually, she even turned her mother's gift into her own response to extinction -her writing, which celebrates the Quaker reverence for life. The Hoosier tales she published over the next several years turned out to be a beloved bestseller called The Friendly Persuasion...
Some followers of the sport compare this year's Hoosier team to the greatest college squads of the past, including the 1960 Ohio State national championship team that Knight played on as a sophomore (he was the sixth man) with Teammates Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek. Indiana Forward Scott May (6 ft. 7 in.) and Center Kent Benson (6 ft. 11 in.) are both All-America; Forward Tom Abernethy (6 ft. 7 in.) and Guard Bobby Wilkerson (6 ft. 7 in.) are both outstanding on defense; and when powerful Guard Quinn Buckner (6 ft. 3 in.) runs onto...