Word: muldoonism
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...Haven this fall with absolutely no experience in organized athletic competition. Just before the winter season began, a friend persuaded the reluctant Sharp to tag along to basketball tryouts. While the friend--a former high school team captain--got the ax early. Sharp impressed Eli coach Maggic Muldoon enough with her natural athletic prowess to win a spot on the roster...
...didn't have any bad habits to unlearn, and so we decided to keep her," Muldoon said...
...games. Many readers were offended by Irving's mating of the truly tragic and grotesquely comic, by the car crash that kills little Walt and removes Michael Milton's penis, by Roberta Muldoon, the transsexual football player, and the Ellen Jamesians, the radical feminist group whose members cut out their tongues to protest rape. Among those with reservations was the author's mother. Says Frances Irving: "There are parts of Garp that are too explicit for me." Literary heroes like T.S. Garp and John Berry of Hotel New Hampshire challenge social dogmas and traditional sexual roles. Although...
...Indeed, Muldoon was swept into office in 1975, two years after the Labor government had blocked a Springbok series. Contemplating the prospect of a new tour, Muldoon called it a "disaster" and implored the football union to withdraw the invitation. But when the union's leaders refused, he meekly gave...
...Zimbabwe. The 50-nation Organization of African Unity demanded that New Zealand be excluded from the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia. Nigeria helped persuade the Commonwealth's finance ministers to shift their September meeting from New Zealand to the Bahamas, a move that further vexed the besieged Muldoon. Said he: "My first reaction was to tell them to look for a good taxidermist, but I restrained myself...