Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paid much attention to the two casually dressed young men who walked into a cable-television office in Gainesville, Fla., last week. They smiled at a young volunteer manning a telephone for the Jerry Lewis muscular dystrophy telethon, laid a brown paper bag in front of her, and said pleasantly, "Here, this is for you." Then they left...
...Local Muscular Dystrophy Chairman Ron Bauldree opened the bag and found ten bundles of mostly $20 and $100 bills. Attached was a note: "$10,000 for M.D. collected by the Gainesville Marijuana Dealers Association. Right...
...sign him. He's that good a prospect." Three weeks later, just a few hours after he gained his parole, LeFlore was signed by the Ti gers. Shipped off to the club's Class A farm team in Clinton, Iowa, the muscular outfielder exclaimed: "This is be yond my wildest dreams! I'm going to stick with this baseball...
Turcotte rode his first race as an apprentice jockey in 1961. The following year, he posted 180 victories to become Canada's top jockey. The muscular little rider moved to the U.S. in 1964, and has guided his mounts to more than $1,000,000 in total purses every year since. Last year his 10% share of his horses' winnings came to $278,000. Now a rock-hard 112 Ibs., he credits his wife Gaetane's calorie-conscious cooking with helping him to keep slim. His old lumberjack's breakfast menu of eggs, flapjacks, beans, meat...
However inelegant that sweat-soaked version of the Gospel according to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, muscular metaphors are nothing new to Christianity. St. Paul wrote, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race." What is new and startling is that hundreds of prominent athletes are practicing locker-room piety alongside the swingers of sport. In a year when many church agencies are promoting evangelism, harnessing the hero worship of athletes is a clever way to make religion attractive to the young...