Word: customs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Custom...
...eighth inning of yesterday's humiliation at Fenway Park, Tiger shortstop Ray Oyler struck in vain at a Sparky Lyle slant. It was his third such failure, so Sox catcher Elston Howard whipped the ball in the general direction of Dalton Jones and third base, as custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected...
...City) and folklorist (Thoreau of Walden). And he has never ceased to celebrate the charms of the Vineyard in his paper. "It ought to be the function of the newspaper," wrote Hough, who will continue as editor, "to keep guard and watch over the singularities of environment, heritage, custom, and response to challenges...
...times annoying. Nor did Indjic seem to be aware of the overall structure of the works. The first movement of Op. 111 is an uncanny mirror of Beethoven's temperament--taking ideas and treating them by turns with violence and lyricism. Indjic's inflections seemed motivated by custom, or perhaps were produced by rote, rather than by any internalized understanding of the metaphor. The superficiality became most evident in the absolute lack of communication in the lyrical Andante of the "Appasionata...
...Federal Reserve, as is its custom, waited until the stock markets closed on Thursday to announce the new rate. The move was wise. Already that day, on news of the growing gold crisis, the Dow-Jones industrial average had fallen 11.32 points for its sharpest drop in 18 months; on the New York Stock Exchange, declines in stock prices outnumbered gains by 10 to 1. Next day, while London's market was shut down, New York opened on schedule, and in an equally busy day the industrials regained half of what they had lost. Most of the activity...