Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fred Lyle Santa Monica, Calif...
...John Riggins and I came into the league the same year, and I like him," says Lyle Alzado, a particularly wanton defensive lineman. "But if he tries to run around my end, I'm going to have to take his head off." A similar warning-"beheaded" was the word used-has been issued to Wide Receiver Charlie Brown from Cornerback Lester Hayes, a sticky individual who used to ladle caramel all over himself until the league observed he was intercepting passes without knowing...
...snow stopped before dawn, and still only Jim knew what was wrong down at the dealership. The old bell in the church belfry rang soon after light, just as Lyle took his muffins out of the Garland gas stove and served the engineer, who ate and ran, maddeningly, without divulging the reason for his stay. In a town short on stimulant, such intelligence could have been dear...
There was a terrible period just after they opened, said Lyle, when "nobody came, nobody called." They grossed $23,000 their first year. The 1983 gross was $40,000. They do not speak of net-out of fear, one suspects, of nervous col lapse. Everywhere about the place is evidence of awfully hard work, the kind of work that makes a man dream that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes...
...windy presenter said that the President, like the hickory cane, was unbending, un yielding and several other ways of saying "stiff." Coolidge, the soul of taciturnity, took the cane, sighted down the shaft, said "Ash," and sat down.) Lyle gives the impression that renovating the house made his nose feel like a paymaster's window. So far, $25,000 has been eaten by the structure. And in thinning his purse, the innkeeper says he has learned something about the Yankee tradesman's sense of priorities. If, for ex ample, the Wolfs' prehistoric heating sys tem goes blooey...