Word: caps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Sox finally arrived just after 1 p.m., Timilty had moved on, but the thousands who remained broke into a sustained cheer. The noise grew louder as southpaw Bill Lee stepped forward, his Sox cap on backwards, his chin hidden by beard stubble, and raised a two-finger victory salute. Then Lee stepped back...
...most of all it will be The Game which will pull me through February. That incredible game. And I'll sit back with my Bosox cap on firmly and my 1967 "The Pennant Is Ours" beer mug frothing and begin the slide show...
...epochal day in 1918, a flaky Pittsburgh Pirate stepped up to bat against the Brooklyn Dodgers. As the home crowd razzed him, the outfielder doffed his cap-and released a sparrow...
...Dunce Cap. The success of Appointment in Samarra (1934) bolstered O'Hara's self-esteem without relieving an iota of his insecurity. The novelist of the future, he protested, will take "the best of James Joyce, the best of William Faulkner, the best of Sinclair Lewis, the best of Ernest Hemingway and, naturally, the best of me." Reviewers who praised him received pathetically vulnerable letters of thanks...
Awards moved him to tears. As a tormenting reminder of the college past he never had, O'Hara kept a mock Phi Beta Kappa key with a dunce cap on the top, engraved "Nope Never Made...