Word: turtlenecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday morning I'll have breakfast at Pewter Pot and then walk my particular route to the training meal. And my black turtleneck, I almost forgot. I don't think I'd play without...
Unless Cornell can successfully sabotage one black turtleneck, the Big Red will see a lot of their scoring drives turned away by number 26. And despite it all, reminds a friend, "He still can't skate...
...told to leave the bus carrying the freshman hockey team to Brown University because I refused to wear a tie. The coach, Tim Taylor, gave no reason for his action other than saying that it was a rule for players to wear a jacket plus tie or turtleneck for all games away from home. I vaguely see the reasoning whereby Harvard would object to being represented by a team of players wearing tattered jeans and old tennis shoes, but since I was very nicely dressed, this reasoning would not seem to apply in my case. I object to being required...
Difficult as those tasks may be, certain heretical aspects of the game as it is played in my ballpark today make historic diversion attractive. Even for a dyed-in-the-wool rooter, double-knit uniforms, artificial turf, and blazer-and-turtleneck bedizened umpires all need at least ten years aging before they might be countenanced on the diamond. It may be a century before products of the sandlots assimilate the Designated Hitter. Such gaudy perversions have me clinging to the Goldberg's Peanut Chews billboard which one adorned the left field wall in extinct Shibe Park's power alley. Still...
...Madam Forelady, has the jury reached its verdict?" asked the clerk. It had, replied Sybil Kucharski, dressed in blue jeans and a gray turtleneck sweater. In a firm, assured voice, she answered "Not guilty" eighteen times as the counts, first against Mitchell, then against onetime Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, were read. When the litany exonerating Mitchell was completed, one of his defense attorneys let out a small whoop of joy and tried to embrace his client; the undemonstrative Mitchell shook him off. "You've got the jury system and it always works," he said calmly afterwards. Stans was less...