Word: scrapper
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...intellectualism reached its zenith in the revivalist Billy Sunday, who hated learning like hellfire. "What do I care," he scoffed, "if some little dibbly-dibbly preacher goes tibbly-tibbling around because I use plain Anglo-Saxon words? Jesus was no dough-faced, lick-spittle proposition. Jesus was the greatest scrapper that ever lived...
...Roman Catholic priesthood. "But the Greek got him," says his father, and then there was football. He was an all-star fullback at Brooklyn's St. Francis Prep, went to Fordham University, where he switched to guard and quickly earned a reputation as a short-fused scrapper whose violent charge made him seem twice as big. "Vince never got above 182," recalls a Fordham teammate. "But when he hit you, it felt like 250." One day a brawny assistant coach caught Vince napping with a blind-side block that knocked him hip pads over helmet. "Try that again." Lombardi...
Lodge admits he is running behind Kennedy but he parts company with most experts when he forecasts an uphill pull to victroy. Despite the Kennedy lead Lodge is not running in the game-little-scrapper tradition of Truman or using the desperation tactics of Nixon. Lodge maintains he confidence and dignity of the winner he seemingly cannot be. Lodge strategy assumes that the Kennedy campaign came to a premature climax. "Teddy reached his peak before the primary. His problem now is to maintain the level; mine is to climax quickly enough." But to anyone who has followed Lodge or Kennedy...
...tennis-playing days, Sidney Wood Jr. was a wiry scrapper who made up for his lack of strength with a ferocious will that led him to the 1931 Wimbledon championship and a place as one of the game's international stars. When his son, Sidney Wood III, was eight years old, the old campaigner set out to teach him the game of tennis the only way he knew how. "I don't believe in halfway measures." the father says. "I was never satisfied if anything was even slightly wrong with Sid's game-even if the fault...
...ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer and twelve-year veteran as G.O.P. No. 2 man, rank him as "an Indiana politician with brains," a blunt, hard-driving scrapper...