Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supporters of the new regulation base their argument on a state statute that prohibits the city from allowing individuals to solicit or collect money unless they buy licenses...
...Dean was a self-professed country bumpkin with a fearsome fastball that more than made up for his scrambled syntax, but even when his arm died he still knew how to play the game. One day in the tail end of his career he found himself on first base as a pinch runner in the late innings of a crucial game. The bat cracked and leather trimmed the grass, skidding into a textbook double play. Only Dean's head and the ball arrived at second in the same painful instant, and Dean rolled onto the bag unsure of whether...
Kahn's idea is a simple one: although baseball is a game, not everyone plays it the same way. Of course, baseball is Jackie Robinson stealing home in a thunder of lethal spikes and cheery abandon, it is Joe DiMaggio gliding around second base without ever losing his cap, it is Willie Mays soaring through center field space, snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards...
...issue in a decision last week was the case of Larry G. Hardison, who became a member of the Worldwide Church of God while he was employed as a clerk at a Trans World Airways maintenance base in Kansas City, Mo. The Worldwide Church, founded in 1934 by Herbert W. Armstrong, now has some 50,000 U.S. members, who are adjured to follow kosher laws, celebrate Passover (but not Christmas), and strictly observe the Sabbath on Saturdays rather than Sunday* TWA tried to accommodate Hardison by changing his schedule, but that eventually brought him into conflict with the seniority system...
Down by three, Boston finally woke up and thanks to a walk to Fisk, a double by George Scott, a single to left-center by newcomer Tommy Helms, and a base hit by Steve Dillard, put Gullett to bed and tightened things...