Word: locker-room
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...rich Liverpool businessman. The senior Lowry and his other sons were interested in sports and moneymaking. Malcolm's own view of his childhood was far from sanguine, and quite possibly exaggerated. He blamed his later difficulties on such things as insensitive parents, a sadistic nanny, and locker-room ridicule aimed by school chums at his genitalia...
Harvard kicked off to open the second half, and while the Crimson offense tried to counter the locker-room adjustments made by the Big Red at halftime, the defense thwarted Allen's aerial assault. Crimson captain and safety Dave St. Pierre, engaging in a brilliant battle with Cornell halfback Dan Malone during this period, repeatedly batted down Allen passes deep in the Harvard secondary...
...first two rounds of the play-offs with a sizzling average of 24 points a game. Stop him they did in the first game, holding Frazier to 12 points as they outlasted the New Yorkers 115-112. But the Knicks have made a religion out of the old locker-room slogan "There is no I in TEAMWORK." As Knick Captain Willis Reed pointed out: "Any guy might do it for us-the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth...
...inelegant that sweat-soaked version of the Gospel according to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, muscular metaphors are nothing new to Christianity. St. Paul wrote, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race." What is new and startling is that hundreds of prominent athletes are practicing locker-room piety alongside the swingers of sport. In a year when many church agencies are promoting evangelism, harnessing the hero worship of athletes is a clever way to make religion attractive to the young...
...coat in the back seat to a girl he hardly knows, and the girl's mother calls the police. He goes to a youth detention house, does a few months' time, then returns to Central High School, where he is brutally beaten by his schoolmates for that locker-room job. He drops out of school, drifts, eventually joins the Army...