Word: linesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill and Bob Cleary began their hockey careers early. Their father, a linesman in the National Hockey League for 20 years, encouraged them to take up the sport before they were five years old. Because there was no pee-wee league competition then, Mr. Cleary taught his sons the fundamentals of the game on iced-over ponds during their elementary educatioi at Shady Hill School, Neither brother played on a hockey team until tenth grade at Belmont Hill High School, where they both made all-New England prep school honors before moving on to Harvard...
...Yanks. On the appointed day, the temperature was in the 90s, flocks of cawing crows hovered low overhead, and Indian fans heckled the Americans' both from the stands and from nearby apartment-house balconies. When California's Dennis Ralston blasted a serve past Krishnan and the linesman signaled a clean ace, the galleries set up such a hullabaloo that the umpire shrugged, and replaced the linesman...
...Trespassing," said the defendants. "Inadvertent," corrected the jury. Four years ago, Virginia Warren Daly, 34, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and wife of What's My Linesman John Charles Daly, was walking through an alley at the finish of a night baseball game in Washington, D.C., fell into a stairwell adjoining a gas station and broke her right leg in three places. Demanding $50,000 from the gas station and an oil company, she won $17,000 damages for her injuries...