Word: avila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lemon's failure and Luke Easter's injuries. Now Lemon has recovered completely, Bob Feller is at his best in three years, and Early Wynn and Mike Garcia are pitching well. Easter has regained his health and his batting form. Rosen, Doby, and Hegan are starting to hit. Bob Avila is becoming an excellent second baseman. The only weaknesses are at short and left, where Ray Boone and the usually extremely reliable Dale Mitchell have started very badly. Only six games behind Chicago and four behind New York, the Indians still have an excellent chance at the pennant...
...Cleveland Indians. The best pitching in the league and a good outfield and catching crews will need plenty of help from the infield if the Indians are going to best the Sox or Yanks. The corners are in the capable hands of Luke Easter and Al Rosen, but Bob Avila and Ray Boone are yet to be proven around the keystone...
...Catholic Church, had grown lax and easygoing in 16th Century Spain, and Teresa eventually found herself setting out to reform them. The result was a strangely dual life that has been one of the wonders and inspirations of Christian history. Though tormented by constant bad health, St. Teresa of Avila was busy and effective in a world of power politics that was dangerous and corrupt. At the same time, she explored the paths of mystical experience as few Christians have done before or since...
...readers, whose curiosity about the mystical and monastic aspect of Christianity may have been whetted by such bestselling authors as Trappist Thomas Merton, could sample the great St. Teresa* in an anthology of her work prepared by Msgr. William J. Doheny, C.S.C.: Selected Writings of St. Teresa of Avila (Bruce...