Word: afficionados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accompany your Death Star: C3PO models, Star Wars Give-A-Show, all manner of action figures, all sadly inert, as well as a plastic model of a "Patrol Dewback" and a Star Wars Playdoh set. For the Star Wars afficionado with everything else, there is the official plastic "Star Wars mini-action figures collector's case...
That's when Jackson just happened to meet the premier boxing afficionado in New England--Harvard alum Peter Fuller (of Cadillac fame)--at a meeting of the Visiting Committee on Athletics. A start-up grant from the Fuller Foundation and advertising sponsorships gave Jackson the operating expense money needed to haul in the Boston Garden's portable boxing ring for tonight's affair...
Bartlett and his fellow caddies imbued with a missionary fervor, have gone a long way towards propagating the game. Another notable golfing afficionado was a British army captain named Joseph Cambell, who had his humble origins as a caddy in Glasgow. Cambell was commanding the British stockade in the Bahamas when he got a craving for the links. He set to work fashioning makeshift clubs out of bamboo saplings and used knots of the native lignum vitae tree to mold golf balls. Cambell laid out a course on the parade grounds below Nassau, and gold was born...
After a seance with my baby brother, the Sultan of Swat, the Swami will utter the words of wisdom that every baseball afficionado years of each year at this time--baseball's pennant winners...
When the post-Christmas holidays of cheers, Veer's, parades and national titles roll by, the East Coast football afficionado slips deeper into his armchair, eggnog and enlightened cynicism over "big-time" college football out in the provinces...