Word: mascot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend drew to a close, the happiest participant probably was Cory Pina, 8, winner of a contest to name the fair's squid mascot, henceforth to be called Cal Amore. Receiving a $500 savings bond and a family trip to Disneyland (plus $500 in cash for his school), Cory is already well financed for next year's squid gala...
Protected from hunters since 1962, Florida alligators have made a comeback from near extinction to a population of more than a million. They became a kind of state mascot, fed by tourists and fussed over by residents -- until last week, when a ten-foot bull gator lurched out of a lake near Sarasota and dragged off four-year-old Erin Glover. When law-enforcement officers caught up with the creature six hours later, they found the dead girl still clamped in its jaws...
...hooliganism in 1985, 18 of baseball's 26 teams (including the Dodgers) have closed their bars after the seventh or eighth ^ inning, twelve have instituted nondrinking "family" sections, and a few have decreased the alcohol content of the beer and banned carry-ins. In Baltimore the unofficial Oriole mascot, beer-bellied Cabdriver Wild Bill Hagy, ceremoniously tossed his cooler off the upper deck in protest. "While it may have a number of social causes," says National League President Bart Giamatti, "fan unruliness cannot be separated from the issue of excessive use of alcohol. I have no data, but I would...
...result, the first all-male a capella group was formed in the spring of 1946, named after the reptillian mascot of the Pudding Club-The Harvard Krokodiloes...
...goal for the Black Bears while the opposing goalie was still in the net...Thanks to *** Morris at Alaska-Fairbanks for her input this year for The Hockey Notebook II. Thanks also to Julie Woltjen at Alabama-Huntsville, Joe Bertagna '73 and Steve Armstrong for cross-checking the Clarkson mascot...