Word: mike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity coach Floyd Wilson will counter with his usual starting alignment of captain Bob Repetto and Bob Bowditch at the forwards, Griff McClellan at center, and George Harrington and Mike Donohue at the guards...
...loving Englishman at heart, Mike settled down in Farnham, Surrey, to run a thriving garage with his mother. Nothing could have pleased her more. Four years ago Mike's father, a onetime racing driver himself, was killed while speeding home from a racing meet. Fortnight ago Mike did consent to stand in for Donald Campbell in his try next year at the world land-speed record, but only in the event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted...
...cold, drizzly English country morning last week, Mike remembered that he had some urgent business appointments 40 miles away in London. Waving goodbye to his mother at the garage, he hopped into his souped-up green Jaguar and whooshed down the highway like a man without a minute to spare...
Sweeping down a long wet hill, Mike was doing about 100 m.p.h. when he hurtled past a Mercedes-driving friend (who denies that any race was involved). Ahead of him, the friend saw the Jaguar suddenly go into a long skid. "I thought: 'Good old Mike. He'll soon flick out of that one.' " But this time, Mike Hawthorn's practiced skill was not enough. The Jaguar whipped into the opposite lane, clipped an oncoming truck, rolled over twice, bounced off a tree, ended, a battered pile of junk, in a roadside hedge. It took firemen...
...when DeMille began to make talkies, he had already produced a series of Biblical epics (King of Kings, The Ten Commandments). He strolled his sets, a demanding and benevolent tyrant, a chair boy always behind him with a chair so that the master could sit down without looking, a mike boy always beside him so that the master could issue orders. A secretary trailed him, pencil at the ready. At home, a handy pad awaited his jotted-down inspirations in every room -even the bathroom...