Word: hunker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holtz, growing up scrawny along a crook in the Ohio River, where Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania converge and steel mills and potteries hunker cheek by sooty jowl, was not what you would call successful either. "Everybody felt so sorry for him," says Joe McNicol, a classmate at St. Aloysius Grammar School and a fellow altar boy. "He was always the last person picked for teams." When his uncle Lou Tychonievich started a football team at St. Al's, young Lou learned every position so as to improve his chances of seeing action. He also studied the playbook, such...
...Bozo's. In the glaring sprawl of suburban Metairie, this is the place to hunker down over the area's best boiled and fried oysters, shrimp and crayfish. Gumbo with chicken and smoky andouille sausage is properly peppery and thickened with a sprinkling of file...
...about Sioux Indians being called to Ohio to do a rain dance, priests shaking holy water on farm fields and prayer gatherings in sale barns. Show business. The forces out there are so huge and incomprehensible, you don't waste energy trying to stop them in their tracks. You hunker down, you survive. Malard has for 60 years, and his dad before him, and before that his grandfather, who homesteaded on the Missouri River...
SRSU Coach Dick Hunker is modest about his team's expectations. "We felt this would be a building year after losing three starters, including two All-Americans last year," Hunker said. Hunker has been coaching the Rockets for 18 years, but he doubles as chair of the Computer Science Department at SRSU. "Coaching is my recreation," Hunker said...
Slippery Rock has played and defeated all the teams in the tournament except for Harvard, Brown and MIT. "We except Harvard and MIT to come out top two in their bracket," Hunker said...