Word: player
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just left. "The plants had a death spread on them. But I was killed just before that." The game, Gamma World, is a futuristic (postnuclear holocaust) contest in which participants adopt the characteristics and hostilities of humans and aliens. "It's a lot more exciting than Monopoly," the player explained brightly. "No dragon's ever going to jump on you in Monopoly...
...Martin was never very good at keeping quiet, either as a player or as a manager. He is, to put it mildly, an aggressive type, and he did not react well to the constant adversity the Yankees have faced over the last season and a half...
There is a certain unsavory irony in all this. In the '50s, Martin was the Yankees' fiery second baseman, a hustling player who wanted nothing more than to stay with the Yankees, then in their absolute prime (the Yanks won six of eight World Series in that decade). He was even Casey Stengel's favorite. But then-owner George Weiss had it in for Martin, and when he became peripherally involved in a fight at the Copacabana nightclub with some other players in the summer of 1957, he found himself in Kansas City the next day. The incident broke...
Karpov is also one of the fastest players around, while Korchnoi is very slow; he has lost matches for failing to make the stipulated 40 moves in five hours of play. In Baguio City, the first player to win six games takes the match; since draws are frequent in top-level play, the men will need both ample patience and stamina. To keep in shape, Korchnoi jogs daily; his diet includes health foods and Iranian caviar-of which he has imported enough to last 30 games. Karpov, whom one observer likened to "a Boy Scout," swims, rows and does calisthenics...
...Someone turns up the volume on the radio as guesses about the song fly about the car. With the first word sung, everyone knows the answer but looks no less puzzled because, well, that's Bob Dylan singing, and what the hell is he doing with a trumpet player and three smooth-singing female background vocalists in his group...