Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senators) and St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals' once again coming through dire circumstances is a drama without suspense, but the Twins are a thorough surprise. Over 84 fall classics, only the 1973 New York Mets lost more games along the way (81 to 78). In both instances, first at Cincinnati and now Detroit, the playoff victim was Sparky Anderson, who has penned a small couplet on upsets: "It ain't no fun when the rabbit...
...Reds are going to make the play-offs after all." Taking to the street barefoot, huddling away from the hotel in their underwear, the San Francisco players contemplated the fates. In August, after four straight games lost in the opponent's last at-bat, the Giants were five behind Cincinnati and facing a four-game Reds series and maybe the end. But Pitcher Mike LaCoss, a Reds reject, shut Cincinnati down in the first game, and Atlee Hammaker, Mike Krukow and Kelly Downs followed suit. Adding the old sinker baller Rick Reuschel for seasoning, the Giants pulled away...
...Pope offered no substantive response on women, only endorsing their "equal human dignity." Turning to a topic Weakland had not even mentioned, John Paul urged the bishops to oppose artificial birth control more actively and promote natural methods approved by the church. After the final speaker, Cincinnati's Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, discussed the growing shortage of priests and nuns, the Pope stressed that seminarians must be grounded in traditional teaching...
...novels including the acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977), certainly displays slavery in all its cruelty and loathsomeness, but she does so from an intriguing, unsettling perspective. Her heroine is Sethe, who has run away from her Kentucky master and settled with her mother-in-law on the outskirts of Cincinnati. The details of Sethe's break for freedom are appropriately heroic. Pregnant with her fourth child and apparently abandoned at the last moment by her husband and fellow slave Halle, she nonetheless manages to send her three children ahead of her in a wagon bound for Ohio and then arrives...
...Tennessee case, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court in Cincinnati ruled unanimously that public school students can be required to read and discuss the disputed books, even though parts of those books might conflict with their beliefs. In a suit they brought in 1983, seven Fundamentalist families had contended that exposing their children to such material violated the First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion. Citing more than 400 objectionable passages, the parents charged that the readings taught such taboo topics as evolution, feminism, situational ethics and belief in the occult...