Word: davids
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...year David Wells threw his perfect game, a rookie Cubs pitcher named Kerry Wood struck out a record-tying 20 batters and the age-defying Roger Clemens, while in the employ of the Toronto Blue Jays at that stage of his pitcher-for-hire phase, became the first pitcher to strike out 18 or more batters in a game for the third time...
...What Helling had just done was the equivalent of turning up all the lights, clicking off the music and announcing the party was over. "He was the first guy," David Cone said, "who had the guts to stand up at a union meeting and say that in front of everybody and put pressure...
...ready to give up, and the Big Red’s Thomas Spettigue won against sophomore J. Reed Endresen, 3-1. Buchanan responded for the Crimson with another commanding 3-0 win, though the first two games were highly contested, until Buchanan overcame Cornell’s David Hilton 9-2 in the third set.The next three matches mirrored the beginning, with the Big Red taking three straight. Harvard freshman William Ahmed, DiSesa, and junior Franklin Cohen all dropped their contests 3-0, setting up a tense encounter in the No. 1 slot between the Crimson’s West...
...Sunday sales legislation] always comes bubbling up when the economy goes south," says David Laband, an Auburn University economics professor who authored Blue Laws: The History, Economics, and Politics of Sunday-Closing Laws. Blue laws, which restrict shopping of any kind on Sunday, date back to the colonial era, Laband says. However, those laws gradually died off as economic forces made some states realize that they could stand to gain by having stores open on Sunday. For example, the entry of women into the workforce in World War II made weekend shopping a necessity. (See pictures of Denver, Beer Country...
...Indulgences are a handy marketing tool for the church, a way of encouraging people to amp up their spiritual life. But figuring out exactly what they are and how they work can be confusing. "It brings people who aren't Catholic up short," says David Steinmetz, a professor of the history of Christianity at Duke Divinity School. (Read "Finding God on YouTube...