Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general manager, Dick O'Connell, who was elevated to that post in 1965, could see as well as anybody what was wrong with the team. He and his predecessor, Mike Higgins, had a vision of the sort of club they wanted to build. A young, enthusiastic team, with powerful hiting, speed, hustle, solid defense, intelligence and a winning attitude. In the process of building it, the Red Sox management looked like a bunch of idiots...
...sacrified last year to build a ball club," O'Connell said. Given a chance to play, the youngsters slowly began to develop their skills...
...need peace and justice here in Newark and all over New Jersey. They are tearing down our homes and building up medical collages and motor clubs and parking lots and we need decent private homes to live in. They are tearing down our best schools and churches to build a highway...
...twelve years, he distributed more than $200 million to city and state governments. Now, on the other end, he is attempting to show that states can play a vital role in uniting cities and suburbs. To take care of its growing urban population, the U.S., he says, must build the equivalent of "100 Clevelands" by the end of the century. Instead of merely placing ever wider suburban circles around present cities, he would build new cities. Not only would they take care of expanding population, they would also ease pressure on the ghettos. The ghettos grow by 500,000 Negroes...
...word around that they are part-time "travel consultants" authorized to sell "discount" tickets at 10% to 40% under regular fares. One Los Angeles con man had been making the rounds of airport bars and restaurants, offering to sacrifice his commission and sell tickets cheap so that he could "build up a large sales report." Another imaginative fellow liked to tell prospects he was in the all-expenses-paid type of "prize business"-and would be glad to use his connections to get cut-rate tickets. Los Angeles police recently nabbed a half-dozen such characters...