Word: trots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late afternoon, a mostly middle-aged and middle-class throng had converged on the Hyatt's expansive lobby for another in a popular new series of weekly dances. Admittance required only a fondness for the fox trot. "Tea dances," the promoters were billing these mildly recherche gatherings: Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington tunes were featured, and Friday's Big Band, Steve Miller and His Orchestra, had played the occasions before. The hotel has a ballroom, but the glassy lobby is nearly as large and, in the fading summer light, far more inspiring...
John J. O'Neil says Fresh Pond is "the best place ever." and he should know. O'Neil, a 69-year-old retired postman and lifelong Cambridge resident, used to trot around Fresh Pond three times a day until he suffered a heart attack several years ago. Now he walks around the pond once a day, sometimes twice "if I feel good...
...cares about the game. First, the frisbees appear. Later, a food and garbage fight breaks out in the center field bleachers. Somehow the battle crawls across the face of the seats and culminates with fans throwing beers from the right field seats into the bleachers. Finally, the police trot up into the stands and break it up. When they leave, the fighting starts up again...
...Hara knew the bunny-hug, the turkey trot, the tango, the fox trot and the polka, and had a good sense of humor. Thus, the woman who earned his wrath at the speakeasy might have earned another reward in different circumstances...
Playing on their home turf, the Bulldogs conceded to play the game as Harvard asked, with rules allowing a player to run the ball as well as kick it. Although it doesn't seem like much today--as the Elis trot into Soldiers Field for the 97th matchup of the series--Harvard set the trend in football back then. Even though Yale walked away with a defeat, the Elis adopted the rules and stuck to them in the following years...