Word: stick-men
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...sorrow. The special place of Nachtwey's photography is the realm beyond the contrived, where even jaded media-hounds cannot escape the pathos. The starvation in the Sudan and in Somalia is impossible to stage, and the subjects are too weak to strike a pose. We see the stick-men dying in the streets and we cannot look away...
Last spring, on a dark, rainy afternoon in April, Bill Forbush scored in the final minutes of play to give the Crimson stick-men a stunning, come-from-behind win over the Princeton Tigers...
Cornell, tired of toying with the stick-men, then roated back for its four-goal flurry, to end the quarter leading, 6-2. Midfielder Doug Johnstone scored twice in this rash of points, and middies Chris Murison and Mike Cunnningham added one each...
Nobody feels sorry for the Black Hawks any more. Chicago always had good stick-men and shifty skaters. Pilous concentrated on teamwork and hard-checking, hard-skating conditioning. The Black Hawks are the only team in the league that regularly holds a workout on the day of a game. When they get on the ice, says Pilous, "they should be sharp and eager and ready to take a bite out of the puck." Pilous' approach has helped Left Wing Bobby Hull, 24, become one of the most explosive scorers in hockey history, with a record-tying 50 goals last...
...years, canceled customs' duties on imported gaming equipment. Under certain conditions it offered to back casinos in nightclubs or hotels worth more than $1,000,000. The Minister of Labor, whose brother turned up this year owning a cut of one big new casino, obligingly ruled that roulette stick-men and craps pitmen were "technicians," admissible to Cuba for two years...