Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the retirees is Peggy Polinsky, 34, who can trace her bona fides back to longtime residence in Haight-Ashbury, when that was the world capital of hippiedom. Now a mother of two and the wife of an actor who works in soap operas, she has brought her brood, because "city kids don't get a chance to play in the dirt much. Besides, I used to go to a lot of these things." But rock concerts today are not the same as their 1960s antecedents, she insists, surveying with disgust the already growing carpet of empty beer cans...
...Quizmaster's note: None of the above obnoxious remarks were intended in any way for my mother or Dave Scheper, who is Harvard's reigning sports trivia king...
...only public 18 in Paducah. His grandfather Edwin J. Paxton was an early devotee of the game. In 1937 he agreed to match the amount raised by a Paducah civil council for constructing a golf course, and the new layout was accordingly named in his honor. Paxton's mother's family also settled early in the Bluegrass state, although, they did not take to golf with quite as much gusto. His mother's ancestors crossed the Cumberland Gap in a covered wagon and settled in Cadiz, Kentucky, which is pronounced...
...with devices to take snow, ice and air samples for scientific study in Japan. As it turned out, he had little time for research. On the 35th day of the expedition, for example, a husky named Shiro gave birth to six pups. After acting as midwife, Uemura placed the mother and her litter in a cardboard supply box, wrapped it in caribou skins and lashed it to the sledge. He then called for eleven fresh dogs; they replaced the weariest huskies, which were sent back to base camp with Shiro and her puppies...
...born, appropriately enough, during the Derby week of 1960, the sort of coincidence that horse people would note over cigars and christening gifts. His father had been an exercise boy before settling down as a blacksmith, and his mother had trained horses. Little Steve was still in diapers when his parents took him 75 miles down the road to Louisville to be present at his first Derby...