Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Hoggin'." To spice this heavy diet of conservative football, Schwartzwalder often gambles for a touchdown. "When we come out in punt formation," says he, "we are prepared to do any of five or six things other than kick, if the quarterback sees the defense is overcon-centrating on blocking the punt, or over-concentrating on falling back to get a good runback. The perfect play, you know, is going where the defense isn't. Football is a long way from being all physical...
...Sultan of Zanzibar, 81, who had reigned over Britain's East African island protectorate since 1911; of a heart attack; in his royal palace. One of the most benign of small-time despots, the British-admiring Sultan was highly regarded by the quarter-million inhabitants of his spice isle, most of them Moslem blacks known as "God's Poor," the rest chiefly higher-class Arabs descended from conquerors of yore...
...deeply committed Harvard professor has added spice to a dull presidential campaign. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., professor of History, has just published a short book attempting to dispel the notion that Nixon and Kennedy are "the Gold Dust Twins of American Politics...
...Victoria Woodhull, a handsome young advocate of free love and magnetic healing, added considerable spice to the suffrage cause. With her beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights...
They are basketball's greatest team, a band of talented opportunists who can do everything-shoot with bull's-eye marksmanship, dissect a defense with pinpoint passes, and, for good measure, spice the exhibition with the tang of showmanship...