Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...many other rockers a kind of operational fatalism, a sense that doing your best, whether on record or in concert, required laying yourself open, making yourself vulnerable. It was not only the pressures and excesses of the rock-'n'-roll life that moved the Who's Pete Townshend to remark, "Rock is going to kill me somehow." And it was not just the death of Elvis Presley that Lennon had in mind when he said to friends in 1978, "If you stay in this business long enough...
...group's manager in 1961. By the end of the following year. boys got their first record contract and their first producer, George Martin, who remained aboard for the crazy cruise that came to be called Beatlemania. There was one final change of personnel: Drummer Pete Best was replaced by a gentleman named Richard Starkey, who favored quantities of heavy jewelry, most of it worn on the digits, and who went by the name of Ringo Starr...
...players named to the second team are senior Mike Durgin, an offensive tackle, senior Orazio Larranzi, an offensive guard, senior Dave Otto, a defensive end, senior Bob Woolway, a linebacker, and junior defensive back Pete Coppinger...
...other defensive tackle, Tim Paimer, the team's leading tackler. Big-play artist Mike Jacobs and Matt Foley leave a secondary that was probably the best in the league this year; and next year's defensive backfield, anchored by Ivy interception leader Rocky Delgadillo and new captain Pete Coppinger, figures to lead the League again...
While Reagan did not single out rent control during his campaign, his urban affairs team, headed by San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, said federal aid to cities with rent limits should be stopped. The task force called rent control a "major source" of urban problems and blamed it for slowing new construction and causing deterioration of housing stock...