Word: wahoo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michelin's mouth, Maui offers some distinctive delicacies: ophis (yellow limpets) eaten raw, chicken stewed in coconut milk, kuolo (coconut and sweet-potato pudding) and macadamia-nut pie, aloha cousin to Southern pecan pie; also, almost all the island's fish, notably mahimahi (dolphin), ahi (tuna), ono (wahoo), opakapaka (pink snapper), akule (mackerel) and aquaculturally raised catfish, all of which are often served in a papillote of ti leaves; and all the tropical fruits like papaya, persimmon, pineapple, lilikoi (passion fruit), guava and dozens of wild berries. Between meals, there are Dewey Kobayashi's famed Kitch...
...course, had to overcome the handicap of being unable to communicate with his fellow fielders. Many of his teammates learned sign language. But the men who played alongside him, for example Tommy Leach during the 1899 season and Hall of Famer Wahoo Sam Crawford during 1902, listened for a sort of throaty squeak he made when calling for a ball...
...Wahoo Sam, perhaps the game's greatest slugger before the advent of Tyrus Raymond Cobb, put it best when he said a few years ago, "And still they don't give him a tumble for the Hail of Fame. It's not right...
When Chief Wahoo McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins went back to punt, the statisticians' palms got wet. How do you calculate a punting average with some kicks going for minus yardage? When Ernie Ladd got on the scales in summer camp, they had to take him out to a truck inspection station. Doctors' scales only go to 300 pounds. When Booth Lusteg went to the Buffalo Bills training camp, they were willing to take a chance because he claimed to be only 23. He was actually 27 and had no previous kicking experience. He booted the Bills to the playoffs...
...year-old daughter on a date. There is great fluttering and consternation that result in several dubious subplots involving a good-natured ex-husband (Gene Kelly), a kleptomaniac mother (Binnie Barnes) and a suitor from out West (Billy Green Bush), who is given to such admiring exclamations as "Wahoo! When you get yourself together you really get everything in the right place...