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Word: caps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after surgery began spring training throwing like an old man. By April 29, however, he threw hard enough to strike out 20 Seattle Mariners in a nine-inning game, breaking by one K a major-league record held by Seaver, among others. When Cooperstown asked for his glove, cap, uniform and spikes, Clemens phoned his family and said, "I'm in the Hall of Fame!" and promised an early visit to the baseball museum to observe his former equipment. With a fastball timed at 93-to-97 m.p.h., he has a legitimate shot at winning 30, a feat accomplished just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Terrific and the Pheenom | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...much of the light-hearted A Great Wall--took a lot of risks with this movie. To begin with, the movie is the first American film to be produced in conjunction with the People's Republic of China. Second, the movie doesn't really have a plot. And, to cap it all off, about a third of the actors are amateurs who were practically chosen from the streets of China...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Great Wall | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...Reagan, it would be to see him not as a doddering old man but as a weird presidential version of one of the "action figures" with which children of the '80s play: G.I. Joe, Captain America, He-Man. Saturday-morning TV dialogue emanates from the Oval Office: "Quick, Cap, there's not a moment to lose! The evil Gaddafi is attacking our fleet inside the 'line of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Yankee Doodle Magic | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...thright illegality, catches a glimpse of HIM. Blond-haired, blue-eyed, muscular, and shyly smiling back at her, the young man at the other end of the bar would seem to be ideal in every way, except for the CCCP stenciled across the brim of his sailor's cap. A sailor and a Communist to boot--whoever said love was going to be easy...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Courting Communism | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

...feel possessive of DiMaggio ("Yes, both of them; all three of them, as a matter of fact"), "Bart" was born in Boston. "I wanted to be (Second Baseman) Bobby Doerr, to tell you the truth." By wretched geography, he has been shackled for life to the Bosox, whose cap Giamatti has only this week put aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In a Green Field, in the Sun | 6/23/1986 | See Source »

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