Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elbow Deep. Back into the game for Boston rushed the Celtics' "sixth man," Forward John Havlicek, who trained for the unsung-hero role as Ohio State's No. 2 man behind three-time All-America Jerry Lucas. Havlicek scored 15 points, and the Celtics bounced back. With 5 sec. to go and Boston leading 110-107, Chamberlain leaped up and rammed the ball through the basket-all the way up to his elbow...
JOHN CLELAND was a luckless little hack who in 1748, destitute and desperate, scribbled Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure for a flat fee of 20 guineas. He went on to become an inept philologist, ducked creditors much of his life, and died aged and unsung. If the poor fellow were only alive today, he could be a Big Writer, for critics on both sides of the Atlantic have acclaimed his ability to describe repetitive fornication with elegance and grace. He could wear hand-sewn Italian loafers, sell his still unwritten books to the paperbacks...
...computer is, in fact, the largely unsung hero of the thrust into space. Computers carefully checked out all Gemini's systems before the launch, kept precise track of the spacecraft's position in the heavens at every moment, plotted trajectories and issued precise commands to the astronauts. On their detailed instructions, the astronauts made the first change of orbit ever achieved in flight; computers not only designed the new orbit, but also told the command pilot at what time and for how long he should fire his thrusters to achieve...
...register of journalistic recognition, the City News Bureau of Chicago makes only a modest mark. It is an unsung news-gathering cooperative, started 75 years ago by the city's daily newspapers, and it is still wholly dependent on them and the 15 Chicago radio and TV stations that meet its bills. C.N.B.'s 40 reporters start at coolie wages of $65 a week and do coolie tasks. They take pollen counts every summer day and hourly temperatures the year around. They record marriage licenses, divorces, births, deaths and the sordid minutiae of police blotters. They never...
Harvard guard Chuck Reischel received the annual Unsung Hero Award of the Tobacco Table at a banquet last night...