Word: stinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lingering Stink. "McLain," reports SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, "who had previously been betting basketball and hockey with the Syrians-and losing-agreed and put up the money. Poor, dumb Denny-who is also known to his teammates as Dolphin, because he is a fish as a gambler-was easy game. The money the bettors lost was taken by the Syrians. The payouts on winning bets came from the money McLain and fatherly Ed Schober invested...
...SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article appeared, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn called McLain in for a long discussion about "certain off-the-field activities" in 1967. Though Kuhn later announced that there was "no indication" that McLain's actions "in any way involve the playing or outcome of baseball games," the stink lingered on. Citing a gangland source, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED says that Tony Giacalone's brother Billy bet big money on Boston to win the 1967 pennant, and that he also bet heavily against Detroit in their final, pennant-deciding game of the season with the California Angels. Having already lost...
...incite riots, and that after they got there one of them had done something about it. The star prosecution witnesses were four undercover agents, who said that the Seven had planned violence before the convention, and that several threw rocks at police cars, purchased materials for fire and stink bombs, and made inflammatory speeches urging the crowds to march without permits and "kill the pigs...
...Bisexuality: Bisexuality is good; it is the capacity to love people of either sex. The reason so few of us are bisexual is because society made such a big stink about homosexuality that we got forced into seeing ourselves as either straight or non-straight. Also, many gays got turned off to the ways men are supposed to act with women and vice-versa, which is pretty fuckedup. Gays will begin to turn on to women when 1) it's something that we do because we want to, not because we should; 2) when women's liberation changes the nature...
...were they by the mighty. Force of this great Eloquence and inspired Rhetoric. Yet B-wen had spoken without Aid of the shrewd Mammon, who'd been obliged to remove his slightly bruised, though otherwise hardy Nose back to sweeter smelling Olympus, so affected was it by the horrendous Stink now wafting up off the Lawn...