Word: roster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weekly, the Bible of the round-ball business. But for all the glory and the shelves full of trophies, Coach Morgan Wootten of De Matha High School in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is proudest of another, more remarkable accomplishment: for the past 17 years, every senior on his roster, star and sub alike, has received a college athletic scholarship...
Unfortunately for the sake of conversation, the litany isn't a very long one. After you get past the first few obvious names--Jack Dempsey, Mickey Cochrane, Charlie Conerly--the roster of Celtic greats starts to resemble a "Who's He?" of modern, and not-so-modern, athletics. Real old-timers--the ones ancient enough to remember when Notre Dame actually had more than two Irish ballplayers per year--like to pull out the names of The Great Ones. Big Ed Delahanty, the first man to hit four home runs in a major league game, and "Tip" O'Neill...
...hockey team have got to be as blind as some of the dates I've been on. While this was definitely not Harvard's year on the ice by any stretch of the garter belt, leaving the names of George Hughes and John Hynes off the All-League roster is like saying the floor at Father's Six isn't sticky on Thursday nights...
...Persecuted Criminal. A Department of Housing and Urban Development field office got 25 names through the Civil Service roster to fill several temporary clerk-typist positions for a year. The office superintendent, a white man, selected seven people (four women and three men) from nine applicants, all of whom were black. One of the rejected applicants, Mr. P., on probation for assault, complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office that he had been the victim of race and sex discrimination. The superintendent admitted that he had rejected F. because of his criminal record. F. was given one year...
...budget has grown to an estimated $10 billion (v. the $7 billion that the U.S. spends on the CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies), and its roster, which approaches half a million employees, has grown dramatically since 1974. Western experts believe it has five times as many people involved in foreign intelligence as the CIA and Western European spy agencies combined...