Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising, really: bad news is most unsettling to an empty stomach, and, as millions of Americans will likely agree, Henry Kissinger is bad news. That's undoubtedly why so many millions of Americans, myself included, will read only the sports page before breakfast. Without Henry, the scrambled eggs sit so much more easily. And everybody knows that Henry never pops up on the sports page...
Breakfast was already a losing proposition, so I read on. Henry, it seemed, had genuinely found a place for himself in the American Sporting life: with the North American Soccer League (NASL) casting around for a Big Name to sit in its front office, the former Secretary of State was the perfect choice to become its chairman of the board. Henry had all the credentials of your typical American sportsman: a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard, several books on the history and theory of international relations, a Nobel Peace Prize and a startling resemblance to a clean-shaven John Belushi...
...just sit back with your dates and your beer on Saturday nights, and go on making token protests when it's fashionable to do so. But please, don't pretend that you are trying to prevent future Vietnams and punish perpetrators of the old Vietnams. "Physician, heal thyself." Stanley G. Hilton B-School...
Pacific: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is great whenever he wants to be, a characteristic he holds in common with the extremely talented Los Angeles Laker team. If the Lakers decide to sit back and sun-bathe the season away either Portland (with or without a truckin' Bill Walton), Phoenix (with a healthy Alvan Adams), or Golden State (with the league's best backcourt in Phil Smith and Barry-compensation John Lucas) will win the street fight for king of the West. Seattle is going nowhere without Marvin Webster. San Diego already went somewhere, but the Clippers are still Buffalo to those...
...sit back, and if you don't like what you see, remember that you can't expect much from a league in which Sidney Wicks and Brent Musburger earn their living...