Word: licks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seattle to catch Bird and the Boston Celtics on the road, and traveled with the team to Oakland and Los Angeles. Then he flew to Edmonton to talk with Gretzky and the Oilers. After that, to get a feeling for his subjects' nurturing grounds, he went to French Lick, Ind., where one of Bird's older brothers showed him around and introduced him to the family, and Brantford, Ont., where one of Gretzky's younger brothers served as his guide...
...just go off and be glad. At the end of every season, when you get up the next morning, you think: 'Hey, no bus to take today, no plane to catch tomorrow.' It's the greatest feeling next to the championship." One gentle concern: he wonders if French Lick or even Terre Haute will ever suit him again as a place to live, now that he's seen Paree...
...Hick from French Lick" is an easy description of Bird and his hometown, but unfair on a couple of counts. If the spa waters have calmed since the days when Franklin Roosevelt and Al Capone journeyed to southern Indiana for a sulfurous cure, French Lick continues to be a resort community of considerable grace. The leading citizen is identified on a circular standard, larger than a Gulf sign, marking LARRY BIRD BLVD. Every street's a boulevard in old French Lick. The location of the Bird residence is given away by a full blacktopped court, complete with two glass backboards...
...disquieting. Nissen might be unsentimental enough to piss on his slave woman, but he'd lick the shoelaces of any, athlete godlike enough to play for the Pats...
Reynolds and Chinese officials are exploring a possible future deal involving one of the company's other products: Kentucky Fried Chicken. For Reynolds executives, that prospect conjures up another dream, in which 1 billion Chinese lick their fingers after sampling Colonel Sanders' spicy recipe...