Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First, an uncontrollable twitching of the hand, which has no television knob to turn. Next, an irrepressible urge to curse, usually at the two-minute intervals during which, normally, passes would be dropped, quarterbacks sacked, or egregiously erroneous calls made by officials. Milder side effects include the opening of phantom beer cans and hurriedly placed phone calls to bookies for a nonexistent point spread. After a six-month diet of football, the American public must shake a national habit, and the transition is not easy. In the home of the Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys, for example, police report more...
...phantom crowds that cheered on Walter Payton as a boy are for real. As a super running back for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League, he has transformed the Windy City into Payton Place, where adoring fans and the daily papers call him "Wonderful Walter." Little wonder. In his third year as a pro, Payton, 23, has not only broken O.J. Simpson's single-game rushing mark of 273 yds. (275 yds. in November's game against the Minnesota Vikings) but is also helping to keep the rebuilding Bears in contention for a play-off spot...
...Atherton) and Henry (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) want their wives to be murdered. To that end, they have rented cottages at a deserted lakefront resort. The reason there are few vacationers around is that some demented killer has declared open season on them. Wishfully, the two men want the phantom murderer to choose their wives for his next rifle fodder. Barring that, the pair make a pact. Richard will shoot Henry's wife Rachel (Novella Nelson), and Henry will dispatch Richard's wife Julie (Margaret Ladd...
...owner of the Best Towing Company, who failed to appear at a state Department of Public Utilities (DPU) hearing last week, is "either a phantom or does not exist," an official at the department said yesterday...
Opposing waves of mammoth tanks maneuvered for position on Bavaria's rain-drenched farm lands. Mechanized units of infantrymen clattered through gingerbread villages, clashing for control of strategic bridges and road junctions. Overhead, missile-bearing Cobra helicopters and F-4 Phantom jets thundered across the skies, "firing" at one another and at targets on the ground...