Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...super close all the way through, as Boston led by one at the end of the first quarter (23-22), and five at the half (50-45) before the Lakers rallied to tie the contest at the end of three, 71-71, and at the close of regulation play...
...Super Bowl continues its recent form of understated, cautious football. Purists insist that fans cannot appreciate great defensive games like the 27-10 Cowboy victory; neither can they appreciate the fine line between mechanical proficiency and boredom, the main fare of recent Super Bowls. While this year's contest between Denver and Dallas had its moments of suspense, perhaps the most exciting event of the evening-and arguably the Super Bowl's premier athletic feat-was a 60-yd. bomb thrown by 13-year-old Alfonzo Walls Jr. in the Punt, Pass and Kick finals before the game...
Perhaps we are witnessing the final reversal of the Watergate era, when the press corps had a hectoring ascendancy over public figures. In journalism, as in arms races or in games like football, there are times when either the offense or the defense is dominant. Currently, in the ongoing contest between leaders who want to put their own viewpoint across and journalists who seek to pin them down or to draw them out, the offense prevails...
...what the great American sport is, and he will probably give one of three answers: football, baseball or basketball. In each case he would be wrong. The true national sport is the law, and the contest Americans love best is the one in the courtroom, where lives are at stake and vast sums can be won or lost on a lawyer's forward motion...
...would injure Igor if I 'broke' with Bobby. A lawyer can afford to be emotional on behalf of his client, but not to his injury." Eventually, Nizer's patience won the case, or most of it. The Justice Department dropped three indictments, and Cassini pleaded no contest to the fourth, a relatively minor one. He was fined $10,000 and placed on six months' probation...