Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghetto, when a man in uniform comes to the door he is not selling tickets to a ball; he has come to take your, home, your job, your possessions, or your children. It is the innumerable writs of execution that the sheriff's office has served over many years that are killing people today...
...eastern part of the country, some villagers bantered with the Soviet troops, even offered them flowers and glasses of wine. In turn, the Russians played their accordions for the people, sang songs, kicked around a ball with the youngsters and even helped farmers to harvest their crops. The regime in Prague was unconcerned over this fraternization, indeed was proud of the restraint showed by its people. The fact was that the entire nation was eager to get rid of the troops as soon as possible; the flowers and wine constituted a shrewd Czechoslovak tactic to persuade the Russians that they...
...from normal social situations. So Keve devised a program for a small group of young offenders who stay at home and in school on weekdays, and on Friday afternoons are delivered by bus to a near by country cabin, where they must spend the weekend together. There they play ball and hike under careful supervision by a staff more interested in rehabilitation than in punishment. Every night there are group discussions of problems at school or at home. Each year the high point of the program is the raft trip...
...probably in Detroit, audiences are left at the end of the show shredded and near-hysterical. Another reason for this audience appeal is the Group's steaming physical presence on stage, its sense of togetherness as a unit, and its musical cohesion creating an unadulterated rolling, weaving ball of sound...
Died. Samuel Earl ("Wahoo Sam") Crawford, 88, baseball's turn-of-the-century Hall of Fame outfielder who set slugging records in the difficult days of Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and the dead ball; of a stroke; in Hollywood. "Now the game is all different," complained the Wahoo, Neb., whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home...