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...dropped a hopper behind second base that should have been a double play. Dick Drago, who started the eighth in relief of Eckersley and certainly didn't prove his ability as a stopgap, threw a pitch in the dirt to advance the runners to second and third, and Veryzer brough Gary Alexander home with a Texas Leaguer over Remy's outstretched hands...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Red Sox Open Strong, Shell Wise, Indians, 7-1 | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...Chinese tale tells about a tyrannical prime minister of the 3rd century B.C. who assembled his courtier to test their loyalty. He had a deer brough before them and proclaimed it a horse. Those who imprudently disagreed paid the price of calling a horse a horse with their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greater Walls | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...continue picket duty six months into the strike despite court injunctions that could make them subject to jail sentences: "Hell, lawyers are made to get you out of trouble when you get in, not to get you out of trouble before you get in." And Norman Yar-brough, president of Eastover: "It is not true that inhalation of coal dust necessarily causes any impairment of pulmonary functions...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Seek Not Your Fortune Way Down In The Mines | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...TUNG has departed from the world. For one quarter of a century he helped organize and later led a successful revolutionary struggle, and in the next quarter century he eliminated starvation and brough socialism to the globe's largest nation state. He violently opposed forces that advocated a pragmatic rather than revolutionary approach to modernization, yet today, industrial production is 20 times what it was at the end of the revolution in October 1949, when Mao announced in Peking, "Our nation will never again be an insulted nation. We have stood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mao Tse-Tung 1893-1976 | 9/29/1976 | See Source »

...Their need for defined relationships is presented as a human one rather than an institutional one, and because of this presentation the stories gain dramatic force. But the offices of the Church are no longer sacrosanct. As a result, the traditional hierarchy has been permanently weakened. Even God is brough down to a mundane level. When the Bishop of Ostergothenburg tries to retrieve his authority, he investigates behind the new bishop's back reports of a miraculous visitation--but the divine message is only "Keep Minnesota Green." The Bishop, shocked, can only respond with a prayer. God is no longer...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Quiet Catholic Despair | 12/2/1975 | See Source »

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