Word: babe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fade in to the 1989 Series: four floggings of the San Francisco Giants, punctuated and upstaged by an earthquake. This time the A's produced the most numbing demolition in a fall classic since Babe Ruth's Yankees gelded the St. Louis Cardinals in 1928. In both epochs the winning team hit five home runs in one game; in both, no contest was decided by fewer than three runs. Canseco twitched off the Dodgers jinx and launched one of his ho-hum homers into the 900 area code. Eckersley, accused during the Toronto play-offs of doctoring the ball, hardly...
Anyway, there I am grooving with this babe, chewing on a tasty piece of falafel, pretending to be sweet and sensitive...
...conclusions at a White House meeting on May 27, 1986. The White House moved to kill the study unless other ways could be found to identify exposed soldiers. Much later, Murray learned of the institute's report and began to doubt his recommendation. "I may have been a babe in the woods," he said in an interview. "My feeling now is that this whole thing deserves another look...
...past $1,000 and transfer them someplace that pays more interest. You promise? Sure. As Amex knows, many of you won't get around to making the switch. You'll forget; you'll agonize for months over where to put the money. Face it, sports fans: Amex, already the Babe Ruth of marketing, has found the perfect way to get folks to accept 6.54% on money that could be earning more...
...Oooh, look at that babe...