Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closing seconds, there was Bellino to intercept on the one, run back the ball for 44 yds. and preserve a 17-12 victory for Navy. After the game, Navy accepted an invitation to play Missouri in the Orange Bowl. ¶ Bouncing into the air like a giant Pogo stick, the Philadelphia Warriors' skyscraping (7 ft. 2 in., 260 Ibs.) Wilt Chamberlain grabbed 55 rebounds to break the N.B.A. record by four in the skill the pros value almost as highly as scoring itself. But while Chamberlain also scored 34 points, he could not avert his team...
Monsignor Ronald Knox was skittish about moths, mice and telephones. He was at his ease among pogo sticks (once he navigated a flight of stairs on one), the pipe smoke and verbal parry of Oxford common rooms, Latin verse and the English language. Temperamentally an esthete, he nonetheless made sense and clarity the chief goals of his monumental translation of the Bible. Intellectually the most ornamental English convert to Roman Catholicism since John Henry Newman, he was too diffident and self-effacing to aspire to a cardinal's red hat. His was the subtler role of a kind...