Word: yells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea, says the league's director Ray Benton, is to imitate the spirit of pickup basketball games. "We grab the kids off the street and put them on the court right away, hitting the ball," he says. "We just give them bright-colored shirts, encourage them to yell for each other, and let them go." These programs, says Black Tennis Champion Arthur Ashe, "are tapping a new reservoir of talent and drive. You will find more athletic, agile, stronger kids playing the game in the future...
...psychology. He wasn't bright, but he read a lot and he passed most of his subjects. Honorablemention didn't mean nothing to him in a class. Jeez Christ, if his team didn't get a run or a score he'd come home and yell and kick at things." At other times "Artie baked a lot at home -cakes and cookies-and he made perfect frosting. He was a perfectionist. Artie would decorate each cupcake from a pastry-frosting bag, and if I dipped my finger in the frosting...
...said to Harrison that in any arena in the country, there will always be a few fans who yell obscenities at the coach, and I didn't see why he should worry about it. Harrison said that he guessed I was right but that it was awfully difficult to take...
Reversed Roles. "I worried about Mama, but not in certain ways," she says. "I never saw her in a situation she couldn't handle, even if she was having a tantrum or hysterical crying. But when she'd get in a temper, it was frightening, because she'd yell a lot and I'd freeze. Lots of yelling. Now I avoid people who are screaming at all costs. My eyes glaze over when someone begins to yell, and my mind retreats back to someplace else so they can't get through...
...Crimson, painfully aware of other transitory leads that had ended in losses earlier in the afternoon, began to feel the pangs of uneasiness that precede disaster. However, Tatrallyay's fifth and winning point put Harvard at ease, as the team erupted into a shrieking coyote yell--the squad's victory salute...