Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the ball," he says. "I don't like that little thing coming back over the net." To keep it away, Connors hits every shot, especially his two-fisted backhand, with jackhammer force, pounding down an opponent with his nonstop attack. Small-bodied, he gets his power from outsize muscular shoulders and a swing calibrated to bang the ball on the rise, a technique first taught him by his mother, Gloria, and later stressed by Pancho Segura, the wily pro who has been Connors' instructor for the past six years. "Never let a ball come to you" is Segura...
Died. Joe ("Ducky") Medwick, 63, hardhitting Hall of Fame outfielder; of an apparent heart attack; in St. Petersburg, Fla. A charter member of the St. Louis Cardinals' rambunctious "gas house gang" of the 1930s, the muscular Medwick, one of baseball's best bad-ball batters, dredged ankle-high pitches out of the dust and sent balls headed for his ear screaming over the wall. His lifetime average: .324. Short-fused Ducky was as quick with his fists as his bat. Running out a triple for his eleventh hit of the series in the seventh game...
Detroit's Cobo Hall was jumping. In one sector of the huge entertainment complex pro tennis players were trading shots with muscular precision. A second area was awhirl with the lithe acrobatics of a track meet. On the Arena's basketball court the hometown Pistons were preparing to play the Washington Bullets. In that three-ring atmosphere, the management appropriately promised that costumed "clowns will perform throughout the game." The unintended reference ultimately proved embarrassing to the Pistons. Treating them like part of the sideshow, the Bullets won by 25 points and reinforced the claim that under...
...often tempered by injuries as youngsters try to copy the more muscular pros. The A.H.A.U.S. keeps no statistics but for most youngsters the most common wounds are gashes that require sutures. Less common but more painful are the broken noses when unskilled kids bang headfirst into the boards girdling the rink...
...several months, in fact, he has been suffering from myasthenia gravis (a debilitating disease that weakens the body muscles). On occasion, he has appeared in public with his eyelids held open by adhesive tape because his muscles were unable to keep them up. Some medical experts suspect that the muscular disease may have made Onassis more vulnerable to the effects of the flu. Although he had lost energy because of impaired nutrition, his cardiac condition has been reported as stable...