Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billy Cunningham ought to know. The outfit he will lead into the pro playoffs next week in quest of the league championship was renowned for being as zany and fractious as any in sport when he took over as coach early this season. The best team money could buy (basketball division) featured a $2.2 million payroll and a collection of egos that beggared even that price tag. Forward George McGinnis often behaved as though his feet were chained to the floor when someone else had the ball. Center Darryl Dawkins, 6 ft. 11 in., 251 lbs., was a tempestuous...
...left totally vanquished when the 'Cliffe J.V. boat, an outfit seemingly incapable of losing in recent years, handled their Terriers counterparts with ease...
...novel chronicles the postcombat experiences of four World War II infantrymen: Mart Winch, John Strange, Bobby Prell and Marion Landers. All noncoms from the same outfit, three of them wounded, the fourth ill with the same kind of congestive heart condition that killed Jones, they ship home from the Pacific to a military hospital close by Luxor, a fictional Southern city on the Mississippi. There "the days passed with a swift inexorability that was the essence of a tragedy in a drama." And there the four muddle through a sequence of implausibly pathetic fates. The rushed, bumpy narrative seems less...
...that is not the future this army is preparing for. Having grown from a ceremonial outfit good mainly for parades to a tested combat force, these soldiers seem ready to take on the far more complex mission that will face them when they are doing their fighting for a black-dominated government...
...wrestling tournament, waiting for your first match. You look across at your opponent; he's wearing boat sneakers instead of wrestling shoes, dark socks (with the little sky-blue diamond embroidered in), he's got a purple tie-dye shirt under his singlet, and the whole outfit is crowned by his Dutch-boy haircut...