Word: babe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball players aren't perfect. They weren't in Babe Ruth's time, and they're certainly not perfect in our time...
Other words are even more inappropriate. "Chick," "babe," "dudette" and "hotcakes" cannot be used seriously. I still can't imagine myself saying, "Professor, I would like to follow up on what the dudette just said...
Schmitty took this apparently enlightened approach so far that he threatened to quit before making a run at 600 career home runs--a feat accomplished only by Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, and Hank Aaron--even though many baseball watchers thought Schmidt would reach the mark...
When the movie opens, the adult Anna is narrating scenes from her childhood family vacations. Her memories center around her unmarried aunt, Babe, who has shocked and alienated the family by becoming pregnant. "In her presence it just seemed like anything was possible," Anna muses. "I wanted to be like her. I wanted to be a passionate person...
...After all, I live in Boston, the babe capital of the East...