Word: towel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play nearly put the Italians on the plane: the U.S.'s belligerent Butch Buchholz, 20, beat Sirola 6-8, 7-5, 11-9, 6-2, and brooding Barry MacKay, 25, defeated Pietrangeli, 8-6, 3-6, 8-10, 8-6, 13-11. Muffling his sobs in a towel, Pietrangeli, the man the Roman fans call "Maritozzo" (Sugar Bun), had to sponge away the tears...
After the game MacIntyre's teammates presented him with the game ball, and be made an incongruous figure as the walked around the locker room wrapped in a towel, with the football tucked under...
When Red Skelton does a nightclub or television show, a man with a towel stands by at all times in case Red's stomach suffers one of its frequent reactions to the strain. Throughout the performance, whether he is Clem Kaddiddlehopper or Cauliflower McPugg, his characters have at least one thing in common: they are all but afloat in nervous perspiration. Red trembles and his eyes are alight with tears as, in the end, he inhales his grand ration of applause; and the people who swarm backstage for his autograph find an obliging man, usually dressed...
...many of them students off to tour Canada, were hired as stewards, stewardesses, waiters and kitchen hands. Among them was the Rev. Alan Greene, 70, a master mariner who used to pilot his own Anglican missionary ship along Canada's west coast. As he reported for work, towel over his arm, he quipped: "What a life! From ship's captain to dumb waiter...
...leaders at the turn. But as he sprinted home, he struck a lane marker with his arm and for a moment floundered off-rhythm. He closed fast, and the finishing order was in doubt - to everyone but himself. Even before the announcement, he buried his face in a towel and moaned: "Why didn't I have it? Why didn't I have it?" First was California's Lance Larson in 55 sec.; second was Harvard's Bruce Hunter in 56 sec. Farrell was third, .1 sec. behind...