Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billed as a classic "must win" confrontation for both squads, a battle which would pit brawn against brains, ability against spirit, and raw power against clever cunnery in a key mid-season intramural House football clash between unscathed squads...
Certainly, the clash will do nothing to strengthen Carter's already tenuous links with business, which remains uncertain about the thrust and competence of his Administration and about the health of the economy. That uncertainty was mirrored on the New York Stock Exchange, where the Dow Jones industrial average dipped to a two-year low the very day of the President's press conference. The foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar also fell to a near-record...
...Trouble follows me," said Billy Martin, and the quarrel between these two perverse and powerful men often distracted people from a team that was full of fascinating conflicts. It was a sullen, gifted and divided ball club. Watching the owner and manager clash, the players eventually came to distrust them both. Stars such as Catcher Thurman Munson and Outfielder Mickey Rivers asked to be traded. The pitchers were often in revolt against the manager and each other. But the Yankees somehow were too talented not to endure. At season's end Martin, for all his sleepless nights, looked like...
Herbert brings in potentially captivating ideas: the fantasy version of a Malthusian crisis and the clash of two omnicompetent cults both of which are the playthings of a greater power. However, he fails to develop them beyond the elementary stages. The lifestyle of those doomed to live on the rim goes unexplored when it could be the most graphic part of the book. Herbert only touches on the training it takes to be a Legum, how the newly indoctrinated members shed their skins (that is much easier for a frog to do than a human.) Herbert should initiate the reader...
...people who think opera is more than shrill gibberish, Channel 2 will present Beverly Sills in "Manon." Aired live from Lincoln Center on Tuesday at 8 p.m., Sills will clash directly with the sixth game of the series. I may be showing my breeding here, but you know which one I will be watching. After all, 1963 only comes back two or three times in a lifetime. The Yanks...