Word: swear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Archer's style is calm verging on coma. He never blows up over a bad shot. He never celebrates a birdie. He does not smoke, drink or swear. Before a match, he is often in bed by 9:30 p.m. "I just try to concentrate on my golf," he says, "and I have enough trouble doing that without worrying about my image." Once, when an onlooker cried "Nice shot, honey!" he muttered, "Thanks, lady," totally unaware that it was his wife Donna. "Maybe," he said, "I should take acting lessons...
...boys spit on the pavement, dig each other in the ribs; some whistle shrilly, others swear obscenely and several tune into dance bands on their transistors. They hug their girls on the processional path and pull them from each other's arms and look them over cockily. At any moment you expect them to draw knives: first against each other, then against the believers. For the way these youngsters look upon believers is not as juniors upon their elders, not as guests upon their hosts, but as lords of the manor upon houseflies. Still, it doesn't come...
Shots at Spectators. Though Hull swears by the curved sticks, more than a few players swear at them. The "little action" Hull refers to is a certain spin given to the puck that makes it dip-sydoodle through the air like a knuckleball, fluttering and dropping as much as 18 in.-at 100-plus m.p.h. For the hapless goalie, says Toronto Maple Leaf Coach Punch Imlach, fielding these unguided missiles is "like standing up at the plate while a baseball pitcher without control throws dust-off pitches at your head...
...Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci voiced a complaint long whispered around the Square: "Bow Street looks like the City dump." City health inspectors should crack down on those who place piles of trash in the area, he said, adding that it might be necessary for the City to swear out a complaint in the Third District Court in East Cambridge against "the owners of that castle...
Some critics say that Hayes is still a trifle ragged on defense. But that fact could not be proved by an established veteran like the New York Knicker bockers' Howard Komives. "I could swear that one time Hayes came out of the stands to block my shot," said Komives. "I never...