Word: stan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inherited that job last May when Stan Bahnsen was traded to Oakland," Varney said last week in reference to his extra responsibility, one which compelled him to come to Florida a month early for the player negotiations...
...afternoon, Nordic Captain Peter Dillon placed 29th in the cross country event. Andy Demars and Ken Houston finished 38th and 42nd respectively. Stan Dunkley of the University of Vermont, and fresh from the Olympics, beat everyone by over a minute...
Harvard's 6ft. 9in. big man Britan Banks scored just two points, shooting only 1-11 from the floor. He was completely outployed by Big Red center Stan Brown, who bagged 31 points on 13 field goals...
...even Hockey Stars Stan Mikita, Tony Esposito and their fellow Chicago Blackhawks could cramp the style of Ernie, Bert, Grover, Big Bird and Cookie Monster. The Sesame Street regulars (played by Shipstads & Johnson's Ice Follies skaters) showed up in Chicago last week for a strictly fun hockey match against the Blackhawks-all for the sake of the team's annual Christmas party. While 80 of the players' wives, children and friends looked on, the Hawks lost the match when Big Bird grabbed the puck in his beak and tossed it in for the winning goal...
...this attention is of a kind that Joyce would welcome. Irish Journalist Stan Gebler Davies has taken the measure of the two previous Joyce biographies (by Herbert Gorman and Richard Ellmann) and found them too hagiographic for his taste. By contrast, Davies' Joyce seems to spend most of his youth consorting with Dublin prostitutes and most of his maturity lying drunk in a succession of Continental gutters. Clearly the man liked wine and women; it is his song that Davies manages to ignore. He dismisses, for instance, the difficult but hardly inaccessible Finnegans Wake as a "monument to perversity...