Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarterfinals, a hard-fought match that made the finals anticlimatic, Richmond squeezed by seventh seed Pam Banholzer of Dartmouth, 7-6, 7-5. Richmond's superior net game and more aggressive style of play made the difference in a match filled with seemingly endless rallies...
...week (she may never give the award up), who drilled home the first tally 9:55 into the game. Taking a beautiful Kathy Batter lead pass that split the Dartmouth fullbacks, St. Louis stormed towards the goalie on a breakaway and rammed a tremendous line drive shot Bobby-Charlton-style into the right corner...
...whole thing had been his idea in the first place. People laughed and scoffed, but Brown seems to have survived the flip-flop with votes to spare. The latest survey shows him 25 points ahead of his lackluster Republican opponent, State Attorney General Evelle Younger, whose campaign style is unkindly compared to a mashed-potato sandwich...
...carnation nattily tucked in the lapel of a sober gray suit, he waved, shook hands and shouted, "How are ya?" or "Cómo estd?" Sitting in the reviewing stand, he showed a flash of anger when a reporter touched on one of those troubling matters of the gubernatorial style. He wanted to know if Brown had ever smoked marijuana. "I've answered that before," snapped the Governor, turning his head away. As the morning grew hotter, Brown doffed his jacket to give a brief speech in the 105° F. heat in Brawley, a town in the arid Imperial Valley. "Taxes...
...time," says William Clements, the multimillionaire oil-drilling contractor who is running for Governor. Clements' idea of fun is to skewer his Democratic opponent, Texas Attorney General John Hill, whom he derides as a "claims lawyer and a career politician." When Hill accused Clements of resorting to "Nixon-style Watergate tricks," the Republican replied: "Hill seems a little sensitive to me." The main campaign issue is how to spend the state's $3 billion surplus; no matter which candidate wins, the taxpayers are sure to get some relief...