Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is sprinkled with homey detail. "What's shakin', chiefy baby?" is Marshall's jocular greeting to a startled Burger. At the height of the Agnew scandal in 1973, Baseball Buff Stewart had his clerks slip him play-by-play bulletins on the National League playoffs between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Mets as he sat on the bench. One note read: "Kranepool flies to right. Agnew resigns." The Brethren also reports some tantalizing What Ifs. The court came within a vote of, in effect, judicially establishing the Equal Rights Amendment: Stewart held back only...
...members of the cast try to play their parts as people ten years older than we remember them. But even though they look older, and sound older, and try to appear older in terms of the quality of their voices, the maturity which develops with age is just not there. In fact, Kirk seems to have lost his maturity instead...
Fleming, who tallied a game-high 33 points, made up for his lackadaisical play on defense with deadly shooting and crisp passing. As a team, however, the hoopsters did not improve on their shoddy first period performance. The two teams traded baskets for the final ten minutes as Harvard maintained its 15-point lead until the buzzer...
...change the tenpoint gap between the squads, the Springfiled coach called a time out. Chanthing "boards, boards, boards" like an obsessed pre-law adviser, the Springfiled coach unleashed an inspired Chiefs team that systematically narrowed Harvard's lead, closing to withing four points with 1:18 left to play...
...play much better when we're relaxed. Knowing we can win a game takes away a lot of the pressure," Holpuch said after the game...