Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troublesome teen-ager or even a loner. Indeed, in the seventh and ninth grades he was elected president of his home room, and as an eighth-grader managed the basketball team. John Hinckley was no aloof oddball then. Says his junior-high friend Kirk Dooley: "No one rooted louder than Hinckley for the Highland Park Red Raiders...
...such bizarre characters. There was the Rodent--one of the most vile and obnoxious creatures ever to crawl the streets of Ithaca. He wore the same football jersey torn at the letters to every class enabling him to examine his bellybutton at leisure. There was Greek the gambler: Captain kirk the pinball wizard: and his roommate Studly the womanizer. There was the Mad Typist who lived down the hall from my dingy basement cell never slept and ingested a dozen No-Doz daily and Howard Machine the visiting professor from Britain who never really caught on to his students' indifference...
...Lippert was intent on getting exactly what he wanted. Always, On one occasion. Captain Kirk and Studly were in their room, not eager for Lippert's company. Lippert knocked on the door and was told politely not to come in. He pushed against the door trying to force his way in but it wouldn't budge. And so always resourceful he leapt up grabbed ahold of a pipe running above the door swung his feet back and kicked the door in--a feat for which he was later fined...
Within a week he was back at it. Kirk and Studly had received their new (constantly locked) door, but Lippert has already tired of Kung-fu. Wishing to spend some time with his buddies he crawled out onto a six-inch ledge. 40 feet above a concrete landing and tapped on their window. Fearing more for their own lives than for Lippert's. Kirk and Studly refused to let him in. They paid for this later...
...Crimson tested Ashford right away, but repeatedly denied what seemed to be excellent Harvard chances. Picking up on their goalie's inspired play, Kirk McCaskill (unassisted) with John Leavitt scored in the last two-and-a-half minutes of the period to give the Cats a 5-1 lead...