Word: pints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cash in on that chance, because as a small man, you may not get another." Washington Cornerback Pat Fischer, 5 ft. 9 in., 170 lbs., a 16-year veteran and premier defender until disabled earlier this season with a back injury, is one of the N.F.L.'s pint-sized pioneers. Says he: "You need more luck than anything else. In the first couple of games, I made some exceptional plays that showed the coaches I could tackle people and not get killed. Coaches all have a predetermined idea of what a cornerback is supposed to look like. I never...
Sometimes. Alone. Between. Periods. Yet "ands" are cheap: "And Mr. Arland ask ing him why he hadn't seen him having a pint for some time. And the barber stopped cutting my hair and looked up at the ceiling." These repetitions may charm at first as a rendition of the maundering heard in Irish pubs; stretched out over a wad of pages, the trick grows thin. Even the little poems that conclude chapters seem limp: "And/ I loved/ Her." When Lennon and McCartney wrote something like that, they provided music...
...million pounds when he heard the Arabs pledging huge sums. On his return to Dublin, the head of the Central Bank said to him gloomily, "My God, man, do you realize what you've done? Now the government will have to put another penny tax on a pint of stout...
...named Barry. Junior year, he thought that he'd fulfill his patriotic duty by giving blood, for the Red Cross. So Barry plodded over to Memorial Hall, filled out his forms, sat in line, and assumed the old horizontal position for 20 minutes, as he lost a pint of blood. When he got up to leave, one of those octogenarian ladies who were born solely to serve at blood-drive centers came over to escort him to the congratulatory cookies-and-soda table...
Barry started to walk over, and Barry--this huge Neanderthalish supreme physical speciman of a man--can you guess what Barry did, on the walk over, minus that pint of blood? No, that's not what happened. What did happen was that he leaned too hard on the arm of the little old lady, who promptly collapsed under his weight. They had to pick her up and bring some real nurse over to take care of her and that's the truth.8Tim Carlson, Mark Lennihan and P. Wayne Moore...