Word: pans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What can you say about a Harvard freshman who has been swimming for only two and one-half years but has already competed in the Olympics, Latin Cup and Pan American games...
...some other ethnic background. But this year's locale was the Boston Arena--a building so decrepit that its rats should strike for better living conditions--and the feature fight matched two black men: "Marvelous Marvin Hagler," The North American Middleweight Champion, and Guyana's Reggie Ford, the 1972 Pan-American Games champion...
Nicklaus's stunning two-iron was certainly no flash-in-the-pan as Jack began grooving his swing when he turned ten under the tutelage of Jack Grout, the well-known professional then at the Scioto Country Club in Ohio. Grout in turn had been an assistant to Henry Picard, who is regarded as the finest striker of a two-iron who ever lived. The newspapers loved to refer to Picard as "the chocolate soldier" because he was the pro at the Hershey, Pennsylvania golf club...
...Crimson then began to really pan the home squad when Jonas Honick spot lighted Gary Ackerman for a backdoor layup that pushed the lead to 50-43. Ackerman went on to finish the evening with 18 points. Most of his scoring came off plexiglass pummeling inside. Honick also wound up in double figures, contributing 13 markers...
Weightless Beauty. Which is why J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) amounted to such a calumny on fairies. Barrie wrote, "Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead." He thus upended the truth (people need fairies) and propagated a late Victorian myth (fairies need people) that must have grounded Puck and Ariel. The rest of the century was no kinder. Thanks to Peter Pan's continuing popularity and Disneyfication, Tinker Bell & Co. were ultimately reduced to trademarks or synonyms for homosexuals...