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Zimmer's paunchy face contracted and his eyes dropped to his feet as he pulled his pants up. He had just towelled off after a cold shower. "I don't want to talk about him. I don't know anything about it. Go ask somebody else," he said very, very drily...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: HEROES and FOOLS | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...control specialist at the airport peered into his radarscope and got his first glimpse of what was happening. As his screen displayed the falling and fragmenting wreckage of two aircraft that had collided at 2,650 ft. three miles northeast of Lindbergh Field, he muttered, "Jesus Christ, an aluminum shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death over San Diego | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...took a hotel room and sat down to make some necklaces for the concert. My nerves, a bit frayed, were not helped any when the hotel's proprietess banged on our door and threatened to arrest us for overflowing the shower. Now I knew that doing one to five on an illegal bathing rap was unlikely, but this small town and its seemingly endless supply of cops would take the word of a respectable citizen against two dirty, hippy-looking hitch hikers, so we ignored her demands to open the door lest she see our jewelry spread...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Riding a Greyhound In Search of America | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Captain Carl Yastrzemski sat glumly outside the shower room, talking privately to some friends, grinding his teeth over belting two Kip Young fastballs three feet short of the bullpen out in center field. "I don't know what to do," he said...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Red Sox Edge Detroit, 1-0, Zimmer Sings the Blues | 9/29/1978 | See Source »

...night was March 6, 1973, and Bertagna--currently Harvard's sports information director and at the time the starting goaltender for the Crimson's hockey team--was scarfing a cheeseburg club at Elsie's Deli, his hair still wet from a shower at Dillon Field House...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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