Word: skates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, tonight you can begin enjoying "Skate, skate, the puck's in front of the goal, it's on Cashman's stick, SCORE!!!" That's right, the hockey season commences tonight, and since there isn't a World Series game today, you might as well catch the Boston Bruins' opener against the Pittsburgh Penguins tonight at the Boston Garden...
Field hockey scoring machine Sarah Mlezcko: "If I could only skate...
...impetus behind the new craze is an improved variety of skate. Borrowing the technology of precision ball-bearing polyurethane skateboard wheels, the new skate wheels offer the wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over cracked pavement with silent grace and dispelling-deceptively-the fear of falling. Aficionados compare the sensation to that of skiing or surfing. The thrills are not exactly cheap: an assembled pair of wheels, skates and boots cost from $60 to $150, and customized ones can run as high...
...Manhattan's Central Park last May, Judy Lynn, 33, a former yoga instructor, opened the Good Skates, with 200 pairs of polyurethane-wheeled skates for rent at $2 an hour. There are waiting lines at her concession on weekends and on Tuesday nights, when city roller fans join in "Nightskates," a two-hour jaunt through the park. Last week they pirouetted and coasted to music from the New York Philharmonic's open-air concert near by. At lunch hour, regulars glide along the park's winding paths, lapping the joggers. Some of the joggers are in fact...
...Circumnavigators Club in New York City include Senator Barry Goldwater, who walked around the world both ways at the South Pole; Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who holds the record for the highest circumnavigation; and Admiral James Calvert, who circled under the North Pole's icecap aboard the nuclear submarine Skate. But last week the 76-year-old club snubbed a sailor who traveled around the world alone in a 53-ft. sloop because the mariner was ineligible to join the club, which restricts membership to "men of good stature...