Word: skating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second trio is sparked by high scorer Rick Magnusson, who centers the line for wings John Halme and Luc St. Jean, Gerry Ladouceur, Terry Ainslie, and Greg Lewis skate on the third line...
...characters of the three jell perfectly. Joey is perfectly suited for center and has a natural instinct to get the puck. DeMichele and Owen's play is suited to the wing position. Steve, on the right wing, is a fast skater, and, being lefthanded, is able to skate in on the net from his position. Dan, on the other wing, relies on his shot. His strength enables him to shoot with great power and precision," Kinasewich said...
While the fans watched the players and referees skate to the other end of the rink, Wright got up, skated in front of Durno and swung his stick hitting him on the side of the neck. Action was stopped for several minutes while Durno was examined. Later in the period, B.U. forward Dick Toomey tallied on a breakaway to even the score...
...schools are also thrown open for family roller skating on Sunday afternoons (plastic skate wheels protect gymnasium floors). There are classes in bowling, bridge, badminton and ballroom dancing. The Mott approach is to use recreation as a lure to coax people into continued learning. "You bring people in for a little knitting class," explains Frank Manley, executive director of Mott Foundation projects. "Then you get a little serious sewing-then you build on that, and first thing you know you've got a terrific home economics course going." All the newer schools have a built-in "community room" open...
...delights. But there is also much over writing. The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard." The mixed metaphors are painful: "I lay on the slab, the mortuary slab of my immortal life-twitching like a skate in a frying pan." And the puns are leaden: a Rolls-Royce is a "flatus symbol," lovemaking is a "deathscapade," and a gourmet ponders whether there is "life beyond the gravy...