Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...analyze--they are one of the top squads in the East. When Rogan is not clicking with Grieve on offense, he is handing off to Rick Diana, the classiest runner in the Ivies since Ed Marinaro. Despite defense designed to stop him, the fleet-footed Diana has managed to twist and turn for more than five yards a crack, often breaking long runs. If he gets past the initial line of opposition and squirts through to the secondary, watch out. He is devastating in the open field, and his clutch runs last year gave the Elis good position and allowed...
...Mickey Finn ploy? Yes, but the visitor had fallen victim to a new and dangerous twist. In the past two years, New York hustlers have drugged scores of affluent-looking men (and a few women) not with the usual chloral hydrate-a sedative that simply makes a person drunk more quickly-but with scopolamine. This nervous-system depressant is normally used as a preoperative drug. It is also an ingredient in some prescription eye drops...
...marathon and never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudités and boiled fish. Executives could be seen pumping iron like buttoned-down Schwarzeneggers. For a while it seemed to be a fad, one more instantaneous American fixation like the twist or the Hula-Hoop. The U.S., after all, had become the country of spectator sports, hadn't it? Walking was all but unAmerican. Long-distance running was for Europeans. "It'll never last," said the wise guys over the second martini...
...voice of Sunday morning TV-gospel preachers. The crowd laughs, and some swell toward the case appreciatively. The guitarist asks those at the back to move up to the curb to avoid blocking traffic, then gets all singing and many dancing to his one-man version of the Beatles' "Twist and Shout." It is a happy inter-generational, inter-racial scene. Cars and buses scream by, and some beep...
...true friend of France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Canada's Pierre Trudeau. Honest and decent, Ford was special in his time, spared through Watergate the terrible ordeal of climbing to power and so spared the rituals of political calculation that can twist a man's nature...