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Word: streaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tennis court, Arthur Ashe calls it the "zone." Jimmy Connors says the / ball grows to the size of a watermelon. By myriad accounts, the streaker's game, whatever the game, seems to be played in slow motion. Wayne Gretzky speaks of hockey that way. At the height of his batting powers, Ted Williams claimed he was able to read the spinning labels on 78-r.p.m. recordings. Pete Rose could count the stitches on a curving baseball. To Race Driver Jackie Stewart, nothing in the world seemed as serenely slow as a car responding well at 200 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Secrets Of Streaks and Slumps | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...windy Franklin-Field. Dartmouth seized a 17-0 halftime lead on a Tim Geibel 35-yd, field goal and 11-and three-yard scores by Sean Maher and Rich Lena. Penn lit the scoreboard in the third quarter on a five-yard toss from Quaker quarterback Doug Marzonie to streaker Karl Heil...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, | Title: Big Green Rambles Past Penn; Princeton, Brown Score Wins | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...unbroken oval of military personnel-the Soviets making sure that there would be no such shenanigans as Chrystie Tenner running out to embrace her husband after his decathlon win in Montreal, or the Finns getting onto the track with their flags to run with Lasse Viren, or especially the streaker who joined the closing ceremonies in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A Frisbee over Moscow | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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