Word: hoosier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that age. You call home. You call home to Mother and Father and say, 'I'd like to get into the National Guard.' " The only difference was that Quayle's parents were not quite Ma and Pa Kettle. His mother Corinne is the daughter of Eugene Pulliam, a conservative Hoosier press lord who dominated the state as the publisher of the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Star. The managing editor of the News was then Wendell Phillippi, a retired major general who had commanded the Indiana Guard. According to Phillippi, Quayle called him to ask for help in getting into...
Indiana (11th) and Georgia (7th) should be one of the closest matches of the day. But there will be no "Hoosier"-type miracle here. Georgia will advance to the next round...
Harvard coaches have a similar problem employing a rah-rah type of leadership. Imagine Bobby Knight, Indiana coach and Hoosier bad boy, coaching the Harvard basketball team. Throwing chairs. Cursing. Telling his players that they should send their games to a laundromat for a complete wash...
DIED. William E. Jenner, 76, ultraconservative Republican Senator from Indiana (1944-45, 1947-59) who was sometimes known as the "Hoosier McCarthy" because of his rabid anti-Communism and fervent admiration for his Wisconsin colleague, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy; of a respiratory ailment; in Bedford, Ind. He opposed the Marshall Plan for European recovery, and collective security measures, including the nato alliance, and in 1950 called General George Marshall "a living lie" and "a front man for traitors." As head of the Internal Security Subcommittee, he conducted a noisy investigation of suspected Communists in the teaching profession...
...Mark II, Mark twain and the Marks brothers in a city that can say Miamarino without blushing. Disavowing his family name, Dupas, for one that rhymes with super, Duper started out as Marino's bright particular sidekick both last year and early this season. Then the untaciturn Hoosier Clayton came babbling along. As the defenders flowed to Duper, Marino turned to Clayton. A more mature Smurf, Nat Moore, took a pensive look at the pair and made a note to retire after this season, his eleventh...