Stories of these kinds, whether true or apocryphal, dot the landscape of college sports.
There is an apocryphal story about how Henry Ford liked to interview over lunch as well.
Five years ago it was an apocryphal story but I'm afraid today it's a parable.
Apocryphal, surely, but it summed up the hype during Japan's property bubble in the late 1980s.
Hansen said stories of Armstrong dreaming of space exploration as a boy were apocryphal, although he was long dedicated to flight.
The story is apocryphal -- one of hundreds of false rumors and instant urban legends that have circled the globe in urgent e-mails since September 11.
One (perhaps apocryphal) story has it that in 1992, when the army was suppressing pro-democracy demonstrations, activists got the soldiers to stop shooting by singing the anthem.
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Staff tell an apocryphal-sounding anecdote from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, when a promising signal turned out be a technician warming his lunch at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
According to reports which may well be apocryphal Sir Allen had tried to charter a corporate jet near Houston, but was turned away because the operator would not take his credit card.
Although the tale is almost certainly apocryphal (I figure the first sandwich was made the day after bread was invented), apparently the earl did lend his name to this gustatory delight.
Since it sprouted from the ground in 1995--everyone knows the apocryphal story of founder Pierre Omidyar and his girlfriend's Pez dispensers (see p. 50)--the company has hidden behind a sort of cyberscreen.
The government promises a minimum funding guarantee which they say will protect smaller schools at least until after the next General Election and so ease fears they might fall into that apocryphal abyss.
When Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822, British merchants, delighted to discover a big new market, flooded Brazil with manufactures, including, according to one possibly apocryphal story, ice-skates an early example of emerging-market fever.
Consider that this other story recently went viral throughout the Chinese blogosphere: an (as far as I can tell, apocryphal) account of the teaching of the Cinderella fairy tale in a Chinese first-grade classroom.
Some suggest political motives, citing a (possibly apocryphal) pact that Mr Putin struck in 2000: the oligarchs could keep what they had got in the 1990s if they paid their taxes and stayed out of politics.
Like the apocryphal Roman slave tasked to walk behind Rome's conquering generals and whisper, "All glory is fleeting, " Mariano Rivera takes it upon himself to remind the Yankees' developing young pitchers that they are always a hairsbreadth away from failure.
Tales about bankers racing each other from Wall Street to the beach - with one enterprising weekender beating a helicopter-owning colleague by flying overhead in his Gulfstream business jet and parachuting out at the right moment - are thought to be mostly apocryphal.
The most popular theory was and is that he had violated a (possibly apocryphal) pact that Mr Putin struck with the oligarchs in 2000: they could keep what they had got in the 1990s if they paid their taxes and stayed out of politics.
The apocryphal brothers who bought a truck and bought apples in the country for five cents, which they sold in the city for four cents would not have been saved by a better credit line any more than they would have been saved by a bigger truck.
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