Word: caning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capacity: 3,800), the Old Boys have developed private territories, holding court in fixed locations where their friends can seek them out, or their enemies-the genial shufflers with a copy of Baseball Digest under one arm and a fiendish trivia question up their sleeve. Eddie Fegan, waggling his cane with the stylishness of Jimmy Cagney, presides over the front row behind third base. Bob Caterino, wearing his jacket with the legend SOMERVILLE BOXING CLUB across the chest, perches on a green utility box way behind first base-the fighter on his stool, still ready for all comers...
...last week's Knesset session, attention was focused on Begin, who leaned heavily on a cane as he took his seat at the government's table, and on Rabbi Druckman, who sat two rows behind the Prime Minister. Begin took occasional notes as Opposition Leader Shimon Peres perfunctorily charged the government with incompetence in its handling of the West Bank. Demanded Peres: "What are our ambitions? To add 1.3 million Arabs, against their will, to Israel, and make Israel a binational state on a one-way street to conflict...
...Sometimes it's really hard to have to stand on the side with my cane and yell and scream, I sometimes think if I could get out there. I might be able to help the team," Gildea says...
...right?" He was referring to a notorious stretch of lava rock outside San Salvador, called El Playón, that was recently discovered to be a dumping ground for victims of the right-wing death squads. The bodies were left there to be consumed by vultures. Another worker, a cane cutter, reflected both the hope and the despair of El Salvador's enduring dilemma. "We think our vote will be important," he declared, "but who in hell knows what's going to happen...
...said to the team in practice Saturday that the Brown game was over, and to just forget about it," Cleary said. "They cane right back and did it tonight...