Word: shea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could make seem charming. He addressed 60,000 at Shea Stadium in four of the seven languages he speaks with facility? English, Spanish, Italian and of course, Polish (French, Latin and German are the other three) and drew applause by simply pronouncing place names with theatrical timing, greeting the crowds "from Long Island? and New Jersey? and Connecticut [pronouncing all three c's]? and [long pause] Broke-leen...
...history to tour the U.S. Huge throngs would gather at his every stop: some several hundred thousand were expected for Monday's Mass on Boston Common; as many as 5 million for his stops in New York City, which would include overflow audiences for Masses at Yankee and Shea stadiums; millions more in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington and even Des Moines (pop. 194,000), where officials expected visitors from all over the West...
...Bill Shea, who lives across from RiCapito, said, "You would never know that he's on the team from the way he acts, Except," Shea added, "even around the dorm, he never sits still for a minute...
...going on out at Court 17, or get dirty looks from ushers when you run behind the court carrying your $3.50 plastic-enclosed chef's salad. You don't get burned by the sun or soaked by the rain. You don't hear the cheers that drift over from Shea Stadium. And there's always a technician waiting to tune out the noise when a jet from LaGuardia thunders...
These sentiments outraged Mary J. Sullivan of Roslindale. The Globe should stop printing "cheap-shot letters" about "a man who had an illustrious and compassionate history." Besides, Curley deserved more than a river named after him. Don't do it, was Mary J.'s vote. Mary Sullivan Shea, though, was all in favor of the idea: "James M. Curley was a great man, a good man." George Donelan, a former Boston College football star (center and team captain, 1945), agreed in rhyme: "A fine idea deserving the support of one and all/ To the grandest mayor...