Word: puckishly
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Diehl is referee nonpareil while combing a puckish candor and scholarly insight into the game. He is supervisor of officials for all of New England and has served on the board of directors and as president of the Collegiate Basketball Officials Association (CBOA...
Married. Malcolm McDowell, 31, intense, puckish British film star (If, A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man!); and Margot Dullea, 33, ex-wife of Actor Keir Dullea; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
...Roman debacle was provided by Pan, a feisty, independent conference newspaper. Directing its barbs impartially, the impromptu daily tried to keep the delegates honest by running such headlines as GUILTY, GULLIBLE AND STUPID-THE IMAGE OPEC COUNTRIES SHOULD BEWARE OF. As a prod to flabby consciences, the puckish Pan staff set up a scale in the delegates' lounge and encouraged overweight representatives to donate a $3-per-lb. "fat tax" to its antihunger crusade. About $150 was collected -perhaps the most tangible expression of good faith seen in Rome last week...
...this tall, there's no place to hide," he complains. To be less conspicuous, Walton slouches in chairs until he is eye level with companions and walks close to buildings to camouflage his height. When celebrity hunters do approach, a weak smile crosses Walton's puckish face, and he professes to be just another guy named Bill...
...marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen between his gloomy Victorian room in the city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when I leave Johnny Carson on for more than ten minutes...