Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, Cosby has worn a silver bracelet that he bought for himself inscribed CAMILLE'S HUSBAND. It matches the silver Rolex he wears on his left wrist and the stopwatch he always takes to the track...
...thin," Cosby muses, pausing to pinch off the end of his Connoisseur Geant. "But I remember how my mother worked twelve- hour days cleaning other people's houses before coming home to take care of her own house and kids," and "all the things I did in college: running track, playing football, bartending, doing stand-up comedy" -- and still making the dean's list. By comparison, he concludes, "this is easy...
Feeling energized, Cosby returns from the track to his hotel at the wheel of a tan BMW. At a traffic light, a pair of adolescent girls stand rooted to the sidewalk, staring at Cosby. He mugs at them with that marvelously mobile mask of a face, flashing through half a dozen expressions, from idiocy to alarm, in as many seconds. The girls crack up, the light turns green and Cosby speeds away, chuckling with pleasure at his easy ability to make them laugh...
...once president of the First National Bank here. He knew the crowd. The candidate, perspiring so you could see through his shirt, was comparing Louisiana to the train: "Rich in history, rich in heritage, not as shiny as it used to be, but able to get back on track." An elderly man of the soil sidled over to us and inquired, "Do you think he believes all that horse manure?" Back on the train, even the tap water came out smoking...
...American line from Jim Thorpe to Bruce Jenner, through Bob Mathias and Rafer Johnson. But "now the decathlon is virtually made in Europe," he says. "I keep hoping there is somebody out there who could at least compete with Daley Thompson." Toomey is not inconsolable though. He knows that track, in particular, has been a missionary sport, and that many foreign stars have American universities in their backgrounds...