Word: rumpus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flag high, the slender Englishman rounded the track at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway, while more than 16,000 spectators rose to a standing ovation. But it was not until he reached the athletes' reception center, where his fellow competitors applauded him, that Coe understood what the rumpus was about. Said he: "That really made what I did sink in for the first time...
...that famed canine fantasizer Snoopy, who has taken to the sport like a dog to a T bone. He is not alone. In the past five years Americans in swelling numbers have nurtured their own fevered dreams of slap shots and shutouts and begun a rush from rumpus rooms to hockey rinks. All vintages -and both sexes-have laced on skates, taped their sticks and taken to the ice. The result: an unprecedented surge of interest in amateur hockey...
After the flood of "I-was-there-during-the-campus-rumpus" memoirs, Mersey's common humanity is a welcome relief. Christopher T. Cory