Word: maverick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something of a maverick effect appears to be spreading out across the state and maybe even trickling down to the colleges. As hosts to Texas A&M and Texas Christian last weekend, the University of Texas and Southern Methodist did their biggest single day's business in years. In Austin, as many as 11,000 spectators have packed women's games at U.T., where the level of enthusiasm has to have contributed to the fact that the Lady Longhorns are 111 games between conference losses. In San Antonio, the old Chaparrals are alive and well as the Spurs. Once among...
...line that America is tired of the same old teams in the limelight, well, I guess that's right. Ratings for a nationally televised Cavalier-Maverick championship game would approach ratings for a Celtic-Laker championship tussle...
...America of what it really wants, what it really needs--a Dolphin-Bear title game--would be akin to depriving it of a Yankee-Dodger World Series in lieu of a Mariner-Giant baseball battle, akin to depriving it of a Celtic-Laker Championship in lieu of a Cavalier-Maverick hoop hoedown, or akin to depriving it of an Ali-Frazier replay in lieu of a Tex Cobb-Ed "Too Tall" Jones boxing bout...
Twenty-six-year City Council veteran Walter J. Sullivan is set to be selected Cambridge's new mayor tonight, thanks to a key pledge of support from maverick councilor Alfred E. Vellucci last week...
...than waste my time spending x number of years in prison, I decided to ally myself with his cause." Khalki, who until three weeks ago had been serving time for robbing a post office, then took the floor and proclaimed his allegiance to the Abu Nidal terrorist group, a maverick Palestinian band that is aligned with Libya. Extremely agitated, the grenade-juggling Khalki told his television audience that he wanted to "give the French state a slap in the face...