Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat Babe Ruth's home run record hit a sharp shot to the left of second baseman Jerry Adair. Adair dived, webbed the ball, but had no play on Brock streaking in from third...
...wanton slaughter of 2,000 purple martins [Sept. 1]. There was little said in any of the Missouri newspapers about the shootings other than the slightest notice of it. The Governor's name was never mentioned, and the impression was given that he was innocent as a babe of any responsibility for the act. I guess that Governor Hearnes figures if the people were stupid enough to elect him, they are stupid enough to believe that thousands of birds can be shotgunned on the mansion's lawn without his orders, or even his knowledge...
...stylized symbol atop each ticket was the first and last eye-stop for many voters. In the hamlet of Dieu Ga, ten miles outside Saigon, a mother with babe on hip voted for the rice-stalk symbol of Ha Thuc Ky because, she said, she "liked rice very much." An old woman chose Dzu's white-dove ticket thinking it was a chicken. Dzu used the dove symbol to dramatize his peace platform, but in fact only highly educated Vietnamese were likely to have made the connection: the dove as an emblem of peace is a notion largely unfamiliar...
...crank out an unending supply, ranging from the annual per-capita consumption of paper (540 Ibs.) to the number of dishes (nine) that the typical family breaks in the course of a year. Sports fans are longtime lovers of the well-tempered statistic. To know that Roger Maris replaced Babe Ruth as the home-run king through a fluke in total games played, is to be an aficionado instead of an amateur. For the average American, to be told that a lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle of time and place and reached orbit is to be faced with...
...Babe backs up Deitch and Adagala with an engaging ensemble. Patricia Hawkins is Garga's selfish, brightly brainless wife. Jim Shuman, Anthony Mowbray, and Lloyd Schwartz as Skinny, the Baboon and the Worm respectively are a trio of underworld figures who are funny yet always potentially dangerous. And I. M. Lamb as Garga's father is the most amazingly impotent old man ever to live off his children...