Word: chalke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closest neighborhood friend, Floyd Youmans, filled Tampa's afternoons with pepper. Using a battered aluminum can for a ball, they waged endless rounds of home-run derby or argued themselves angry over a game called Strikeout that featured a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. "Just me and him," Youmans whispers conspiratorially. "We weren't supposed to--the coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew. By twelve he had command. Almost nobody could...
...reminded every summer who the pitchers are. A young fellow named Floyd Youmans had a bright spring for Montreal and has pitched his way into the starting rotation. Maybe the best pitcher in baseball should dig up a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. There could be Strikeout games this summer...
Meanwhile, the student divestment group, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), can chalk this one up as one of its greatest victories. Initially, SASC released a lengthy report which, although to a certain degree based on preliminary information, exposed several serious problems with the internship program. The group showed that Harvard had acted rashly on President Bok's plan, without consulting top Black leaders in South Africa about either the value of the program as a whole or of the institutions to which Harvard might send interns...
There is still a great air of neglect about the place, the air of people scraping by. The 54 faculty members not only continue to bring supplies from home that should be supplied by Fisk--chalk, say--but they are painfully aware that they are working for peanuts; since 1980 the school has provided a single 5% raise. Ponder says he is going for salary adjustments as soon as he is rid of the debt...
...diameter, through which trains will shuttle passengers and vehicles between Cheriton and Frethun. A third tunnel, 15 ft. wide, is to provide ventilation and access for service personnel. The 31-mile- long main tubes (underwater length will be 23 miles) are to be dug through the chalk deposits 131 ft. below the Channel floor...