Word: nated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winfield, Emmette Bryant. 8. Garfield Smith. 9. Shaheed Abdul-Aleman. 10. Zaid Abdul-Aziz. 11. Wali Jones. 12. Abdul-Ramman. 13. Centenary. 14. Pan American. 15. Akron U. 16. St. Francis of Loretto (Pa.). 17. Bradley. 18. Creighton. 19. Kenney Booker. 20. Jeff Mullins, Ricky Barry, Nate Thurmond, Guy Rodgers and Rudy LaRusso. 25. Steve Previs. 26. Greg Samuels (not Otto Petty). 27. Adrian Smith. 28. 10, 35, 15. 29. 16, 48, 42. 30. 23. 31. 8. 32. 2(home), 4(away). 33. Jay Carty. 34. "Shower-to-shower" powder. 35. Jim Pansulo. 36. One (he got the heave after...
...plainly it is epidemic. Already the name thing has inspired the publication of whole books that purport to plumb the "psychological vibrations" of personal names. Dawn and Loretta and Candy are supposed to be sexy, according to Christopher Andersen's The Name Game, and Bart and Mac and Nate are macho. Humphrey is sedentary; so much for Bogart. Anyway Americans have not needed any tracts or theories to get them lunging after catchy handles. One Phoenix mother recently branded her new baby girl with the unforgettable sobriquet Equal Rights Amendment...
...Celts get money players Nate Archibald, Marvin Barnes and Billy Knight--albeit, with a lot of question marks--while San Diego gets a good deal in terms of quantity, but little in the way of first-rate quality...
...general, mellifluous names tend to have passive or negative meanings, and the macho names tend to sound like sharp, short yelps (Bart, Kent, Mac, Matt, Bill, Nate). Despite Bogart, Humphrey retains its depressing image ("terribly unpopular, sedentary"), but Sophia Loren has influenced her first name, which now means "a bombshell." Gina, Brian and Douglas are among the most dynamic and positive names...
Founded by Chicago Entrepreneur Nate Sherman, Midas long thrived as the number of its franchised dealers increased steadily over the years. But after Nate's son Gordon took over in 1967, a father-son conflict arose. Gordon was a University of Chicago intellectual and partial to Elizabethan English and the raising of orchids and hummingbirds. He favored a relaxed style of management that did not sit well with dad. Several dealers quit, and the internal strife began to show up in leaner profits. After a proxy fight, Sherman Sr. in 1972 sold his controlling interest to IC Industries. When...