Word: amaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few weeks, though, with a stack of important bills before the 263-member National Assembly, Soares' vote-shopping gambit has run into trouble. As one diplomatic observer put it: "The Socialists got a clear signal that a minority government is not a ma jority government." Adeline Amaro da Costa, deputy leader of the Social Democratic Center party, was more succinct. "We were giving our parties to the government," he said. "It was a kind of floating coalition, in which we submitted to something like alternate adultery...
...setback was the first sign of parliamentary cooperation between the P.S.D. and the C.D.S. following the creation of a so-called con-vergencia democrdtica, in which the two parties, though shying away from forming a unified voting bloc, agreed to work together when possible. What irked the opposition, said Amaro da Costa, was the Socialists' frequent failure to keep it informed. "Everything was arranged in the corridors. The Premier would go on a trip, and we would have to find out from the newspapers what happened...
...give me my third no-hitter. Try hard as I might, I just couldn't remember facing Johnny that night. I remember missing low on a 3-2 count to Dick Allen to spoil the perfect game, and I remember getting Tony Taylor (on a strike-out) and Ruben Amaro (on a pop -up) for those first two outs in the ninth. So I took a look at the books, and sure enough, Klippy wasn't in the order that night...
...October 1966 the Yankees finished the season in tenth place. In 1967 they put players on the field like Charlie Smith, Ruben Amaro, Steve Whitaker and Horace Clarke. Whitaker was especially pathetic because he was one in a set of the "next Mickey Mantle" series. Whitaker came up to the Yankees, hit a cluster of home runs in his first week and then began to strike out. His collapse was awful to watch. Fortunately for him, not too many people came out to the park to look. Other "next Mickey Mantle" prototypes were Roger Repo, Bill Robinson and Bobby Murcer...