Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group is actually called Stryper, a name inspired by the biblical assurance that "with His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53: 5). Instead of throwing drumsticks into the audience, these metal missionaries toss out about 500 imitation-leather copies of the New Testament. "We are rock-'n'-roll evangelists," says Drummer Robert Sweet, 24. "Stryper is a modern-day John the Baptist crying in the world of rock for those who don't have the life of Christ to turn on the light switch. Our message...
Edwards is a nonsmoking teetotaler, but he delights in shouting, "Laissez les bons temps rouler!" (Let the good times roll). To pay off a $4.4 million campaign debt after his last election, he and some 600 of his supporters, many paying $10,000 a head, boarded two jumbo jets loaded with champagne and flew off on a one-week tour of Paris and Monte Carlo. Edwards happily posed with beautiful women and rolled high at the gaming tables, winning...
Fusco has been honored by the ECAC eight times so far this year, twice as Player of the Week and six times on the Honor Roll. He's been noted by the Ivy League for his performance 13 times, every week but the one during which the Crimson was idle for exams...
...NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: St. Lawrence, senior Bruce Robertson, who had played in one game in two years going into last weekend and was called up from the J.V. after several players walked off the team, was named to this week's ECAC Honor Roll Robertson had the critical third goal in the Larries 4-3 overtime upset of the Crimson, and two goals the following evening at Dartmouth Brian Busconi and Don Sweenes have caught up to Grant Blair's 26 penalty minutes and the three now share the team lead. The ECAC semi-finals at the Boston Garden...
...easy work. The search for oil meant days of chasing rumors over dusty back roads in Texas and Oklahoma, and nights bent over maps studying geological strata. In his spare time, Pickens indulged his passion for Gusher, a board game in which players roll dice to look for oil. Says Amarillo Lawyer Wales Madden Jr., an old friend: "It was uncanny. He always won at that darn game...