Word: pete
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hatched the idea of starting his own band. He first came to the U.S. from Johannesburg at age two, returned at age 13, and then in 1986 finally settled here for good. One of the things he liked about the U.S. was that he could "listen to everything from Pete Seeger to the Jackson Five." In 1991 he hooked up with jazz drummer Carter Beauford, saxophonist Leroi Moore, violinist Boyd Tinsley and bassist Stefan Lessard. The new band spent two long years gigging at beer-stained frat houses, molding their sound...
Only a few years ago, few took the geeky ideologue seriously. Infuriated by what he saw as Governor Pete Wilson's anti-immigrant stance, Unz challenged him in the '94 G.O.P. primary, garnering 34% of the vote. Unz's opposition to Proposition 187, the measure that would have excluded illegal immigrant children from public school, has stood him well in attracting Latino support. "My mother learned English easily in school," he says. "Latino parents want their kids to learn English...
...inexpensive and homemade instruments--was all the rage, and in 1957 Lennon formed a band called the Quarrymen. By the following year, the group had been joined by McCartney and his school friend George Harrison, then just 14. In 1960, calling themselves the Silver Beatles, and with drummer Pete Best in tow, they sailed to Germany to play the riotous red-light-district bars of Hamburg, drink Herculean quantities of beer and gulp down handfuls of illicitly energizing pills to keep them stage ready seven nights a week...
Binkowski, who saw highly limited action last season as Pete Albers's backup, won control of the starting job and performed admirably, hitting .291 and fielding .995, knocking down more than his fair share of smoking grounders...
Harvard put Dartmouth quarterback Pete Sellersinto his school's record books. The senior threwfive interceptions, each to a different Harvarddefender. Three of the interceptions were tipped,then caught, which indicates how much pressure theCrimson defensive line was able to put on thequarterback...