Word: rattail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point is this: that after the season the Yankees had, in which they won all the Big Games and played close to .700 ball in the last two and a half months, anything that the team did was pure gravy. They won the pennant despite all the verbal rattail-flicking that went on off the field, despite injuries to their pitching staff that clogged them throughout, despite having a $100,000 fungo hitter in Ken Holtzman, despite Bucky Dent's mediocrity, despite George Steinbrenner's obtrusive presence...
...wish heterosexuals would get their stereotypes straight so I can know whether I am supposed to carry a rattail comb or a switchblade...
Item #4: Hockey goalies, coach reach boiling point: Reserve varsity netminders Jack Hynes and Brian Murphy are now in Coach Billy Cleary's doghouse. The two freshmen got involved in a rattail flicking, tape-throwing donnybrook in the locker room the other day. The fracas represented a culmination of the competitive hostilities between the two all season, hostilities which began when Hynes put sneezing powder in Murphy's mask in an earlier game...