Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henderson's record-breaker Friday night in Milwaukee was typically audacious. In the third inning, he broke for second and barely slid under the tag. Afterward, Brock and American League President Lee MacPhail presented him with the base. Said Brock: "Rickey, you've carved yourself a niche in baseball history." Stolen the niche would be more like...
...paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast as her Aunt Mary Carson. Only one major part, that of Meggie's husband Luke, is being played by an Australian, Bryan Brown (Breaker Morant). Brown may have his Down Under accent down pat, but the rest will have to fake it. Rachel, who was raised on an Oxfordshire farm, hopes a mid-Atlantic cadence will carry her through. Besides, says she, "Americans can't tell the difference between Australian and English accents anyway...
...Hitler has gone down in history as the personification of evil, Mussolini has won his own immortality as the archetypal thug. But the founder of Fascism was a complex thug who could never make up his mind whether he wanted to be a fearsome breaker of the peace, like his neighbor to the north, or a geopolitical showman, the P.T. Barnum of international politics. Judging from Denis Mack Smith's study, by far the more solid and persuasive of these two new biographies, the Duce (chief) was a bit of both...
...morning, cotton mouth had replaced Buzz Jones, and I dimly remembered some parts of the last night's conversation. Picking up the New York Times, I mechanically found the sports page. The Mets had dropped a heart breaker to the Expos in the bottom of the ninth, 5-4. Something pulled desperately in my stomach, and I headed for an extended prayer session with the great porcelain...
Similar to movies like Breaker Morant and Gallipoli. "The Freedom of the City" portrays the sacrifice of three people to society--the English society. The plot presents the events leading up to the death of three Irish people in 1970, and the tribunal which attempted to determine if the three were murdered by the police or justly executed for initiating the violence...