Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front of 400 fans and loving every minute of it. Usually when former major leaguers return to the minors it is rather sad. They return to the long bus rides hoping to find the stuff that once put them in the limelight, but Lee isn't doing that. His arm is more or less shot, he hasn't pitched in the majors in over two years, and he has been effectively blackballed by front office types who think he has a bad attitude. No, Lee must be playing because he likes...
...film maker. Case in point: Henry V. With its sprawling dramatic structure, a dozen "locations," some 40 speaking parts and a huge, climactic battle scene, Henry V just about qualifies as Shakespeare's epic moviescript. SEE the lords of two great nations exchange nasty taunts and arm for Armageddon...
Western Europe's biggest Communist party (1.7 million members) thus served notice that it would continue to hew to Berlinguer's "Eurocommunist" line, polishing its democratic image and keeping Moscow at arm's length. Natta has supported Berlinguer's advocacy of what is known as the "historic compromise," the idea of a coalition government between Communists and Christian Democrats. He is considered practical rather than creative, professorial rather than charismatic. In opting for Natta the party passed up a number of candidates with a popular following, each of whom would have given his own stamp...
Because of intense arm twisting by both interest groups, deliberations were protracted, and 600,000 pending cases were put into limbo. The legal authority of bankruptcy judges had to be extended on an emergency basis four times. The final extension expired last week, causing the temporary crisis...
...like a base coach. At one point, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Mondale backer, strayed by voting for a Hart-proposed tax-reform measure that Moynihan had co-sponsored in the Senate. Tully, a former Yale football tackle, lumbered over from his sideline post and put his arm on the Senator's shoulder. Sheepishly, Moynihan switched his vote...