Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...training camp, crusty Lester Patrick tried to cut Lynn from the squad, but Frank Boucher persuaded him to keep the boy on. Says Lynn: "It wasn't easy to work under dad." The other players distrusted him, the fans booed him, and his father was rougher on Lynn than on anybody else. But by 1942 Lynn was one of the National Hockey League's top scorers, made the all-star team, and was popular with fellow players...
...pound, non-smoking and non-drinking ("I just never got started") freshman has been using up energy on the ice for only seven years. He started figure skating at the age of 12 against his father's wishes. "Dad wanted me to play hockey." Button explains, "but after I won my first medal, you couldn't tear him away from figure skating...
...Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading them. His own editorials (which he reads aloud to make sure they can stand it) get read. All through the 1948 campaign, the Gazette dad-blamed the Dixiecrats, stuck with Truman, "advised" voters to do the same. Arkansas did, by a 60% vote...
...cowboy tunes and spirituals, and the songs of mines and railroads. But mostly, their heads are filled with the heroes that grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...
...want their homes to "look funny." Also, houses present a more difficult problem. People do a wide variety of things in their houses, and each activity requires different conditions. The environment of the living room, where Junior is picking on Little Sister, may not be suitable to Dad, who is listening to the radio...