Word: nuthin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Layne himself likes to minimize his importance to the team. "You're nuthin' without them ten big brothers," he drawls. But brother Bobby is more than just another quarterback. "Let me give you an example," says Bob McClellan, sports editor of the Detroit Times. "It's the L.A. Coliseum, fourth quarter. The Rams lead, 24-20. Remember? The Rams kick off and the Lions get the ball on their own 20-yard line. Bobby looks at the clock. There's ten minutes to play. Does Bobby throw the ball around like crazy...
Daley, on the other hand, seemed only too happy about the strike. "Thanks for your kind offer of a column outlet. The football season has ended. The basketball season has hardly started. The baseball season has yet to begin. IT jes' looks as though there ain't nuthin' doing nowhere, nohow. From a column-writing standpoint, this strike is perfect. I've just finished hanging on my door a sign, 'Do not disturb'. I aim to catch up on my sleep. No runs, no hits, no errors...
...them were young, tough, freewheeling Americans of 20 and 21, and they had the courage to have their say and the strength to take their punishment. Said Corporal "Buster Brown" White, of Alabama City, Ala.: "If they accused us of somethin', we said we didn't know nuthin' about it. If they tossed us in 'the hole,' we just kept our mouths shut. We just didn't do nuthin' they told...
...with the troubles of the aging. He found his story, however, by attending a session when the venerable baseball pitcher, Satchel Paige, turned up. Correspondent Woods's report: "For two solid hours, Ole Satch held the scientists spellbound with inside tips on how he maintained his terrifying 'nuthin' ball' despite his advanced years. Samples of his anti-old age prescriptions: don't fill up on chicken livers ; don't inhale when smoking-blow it out your nose." (TIME, Sept...
...Second International Gerontological Congress, meeting in St. Louis, had an impromptu session with ancient (somewhere between 43 and 51) Pitcher Satchel Paige, brought back from the Negro American league this season to throw his "nuthin' ball" for the St. Louis Browns. How did he keep in shape? To an impressed audience Satchel explained that he started early by avoiding beer, whisky, gin, tea, coffee, chicken livers and lamb. If you smoke, he added, don't inhale. "I just blows it out my nose." Playing ball in the summer, hunting every day in winter, also help...