Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When O.J. Simpson first suited up with the Buffalo Bills in 1969, Coach John Rauch took one look at the rookie running back and pronounced himself sorely disappointed. "Simpson," Rauch announced with mock astonishment, "doesn't walk on water...
Orenthal James Simpson has grudgingly grown accustomed to such razzing -and to other problems as well. The most celebrated college player since Red Grange, the two-time All-America from the University of Southern California is perhaps the foremost example of the superstar readjustment syndrome. Only now, at age 26, is Simpson fully realizing the promise of the college career that won him the Heisman Trophy...
...sons and daughters after retirement now count on relaxing in some sunny clime on the beaches and golf courses of Senior Citizen Acres. "Even if we attain zero population growth, we will continue to spread out across our open land like a tidal wave," says Dartmouth Geographer Robert B. Simpson. "Our demand for land per capita is increasing even more rapidly than our population...
Palmieri, however, did not reckon with the power of the Australian National Mouse Club, a small but vocal group (57 humans and 2,861 mice) that is dedicated to the care, protection and love of Mus musculus, or the ordinary house mouse. "Disease carriers, indeed!" protests Mrs. Sheila Simpson, the club's president. "It's more likely that they will catch something from us. They're always getting tonsillitis or colds from the kids...
...threat, an aggressor; Hopper's outlaw is a puzzled, slightly paranoid victim. Trying to go straight and live right, he only makes the citizens more suspicious. They are resentful in some vague way, and the sheriff, Mean John ("But only my friends can call me that") Simpson, is disbelieving. "I seen boys like you before," he tells Bickford, "and there's no good...