Word: squirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slippery Squirt." Growing up in Los Angeles, the Rams' Jon Arnett (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.) was the smallest kid on his team. He learned to run around tacklers purely as an act of survival ("I was a slippery little squirt"). Arnett began taking tumbling lessons in the sixth grade, is now so agile that he literally has been knocked head-over-heels into the air only to land on one foot and take off in the opposite direction. When frustrated tacklers finally do catch up with him, Arnett knows how to take his lumps...
...CHICAGO FIRE. Half the West Side bursts into flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...