Word: hulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onboard magnetometer for detecting telltale aberrations in magnetic fields, could not be used effectively. Haskins' research had revealed that the galleon was outfitted with nonmagnetic bronze cannons and that its iron anchors had been cut loose in deeper waters. The ship's remaining iron artifacts, such as hull fittings and cannon balls, had slipped into coral crevices where the device could not detect them...
...sense, Bobby Hull and Bobby Orr were like Tunney and Dempsey: they transformed and lifted their sport. When Hull began to play for the Chicago Black Hawks as an 18-year-old left-winger, the National Hockey League gained not only a new idol, the Golden Jet, but also a new scoring weapon, the slapshot. At his best, Hull could skate at nearly 30 m.p.h., and his shot whistled at 118 m.p.h., sometimes knocking the glove off the goaltender's hand...
Enormously strong, Hull was as graceful as a figure skater, and he became the biggest attraction in hockey history. He was also one of the cleanest players in the game. In 1972 he joined the Winnipeg Jets in the new World Hockey Association and immediately became both its most solid asset and most expensive liability: his contract gave him a reported $2.75 million over a ten-year period. But age inevitably slowed his stride, and despondent over his recent divorce, he quit after 22 years in hockey. In 1,447 games, he had scored 1,012 goals (second only...
...Hull and Orr were their sport's premier ambassadors, Hull beaming broadly as he spent tireless hours signing autographs, Orr smiling shyly as the cheers swept over him. Orr was a magician, a man who accomplished what no other defenseman had ever done?become his team's main scoring threat. Playing for the Boston Bruins, Orr changed the dimension of the game, sweeping up ice from the far end of the rink and then scoring with his short-range wrist shot. Twice he led the league in goals, an astonishing feat for a defender. For a record three straight years...
...himself. His contract called for a salary of $600,000 a year, yet he had not cashed a single paycheck when he quit last week after seven operations had failed to save his knees. He refused to be paid unless he delivered, and Bobby Orr, like Tunney and Hull, always delivered the best...