Word: pele
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always used to hog the baseball field, we first-graders would have the large field in the back of our school (San Benito in Humacao. Puerto Rico) all to ourselves. There were about 15 of us and every game was Brazil against Argentina. Problem was, everyone wanted to be Pele; no one liked the Argentines...
Cheering Derek Mills as he scores on an overhead kick, Pele-style, and celebrates, forgetting about his knee for the briefest of moments...
...Pele Brazilian...
Some still endure. Most of the ancestor gods are gone now, but on the Big Island, the fire and volcano goddess Pele still lives. She is not worshiped, say modern-day Hawaiians, but she is acknowledged, and in the fiery and overflowing caldera of Kilauea she rules. The first hula, it is said, was chanted and danced in Pele's praise by her younger sister Hi'iaka. Recently Zuttermeister and some 25 other splendid hula performers, the spiritual descendants of Hi'iaka, brought their art to the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C. It was not modern dance, which...
...trademark may be a soccer ball rather than a football, but nonetheless, Pele, 45, has been tapped to be grand marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., next New Year's Day. The Brazilian megastar, who led his country's team to World Cup victory three times and scored 1,281 goals in his career before retiring in 1977, follows such past marshals as John Wayne (1973), Gerald Ford (1978) and Lee Iacocca (1985) in kicking off the show. "To me it is like another World Cup," said Pele, who flew to California to accept his latest...