Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morgan, in particular, defies belief: besides hitting 327 and slugging 20 home runs, he led the league in walks drawn, and placed second in stolen bases. George Foster's credentials, although much less publicized, are equally impressive: Foster hit 311, with 26 home runs, and the third highest slugging percentage in the majors...
...first attended. I particularly recall this episode when I was a small boy: I met him at a certain place, and he asked me, "How do you come to school when it rains?" And I was just a small boy, so I answered offhand, "I come by horse-drawn carriage." And Nogi said, "When it rains you must come here on foot wearing an overcoat." So he was advocating a very frugal, strenuous, self-disciplined life. That made a profound impression...
While completion of the tedious, drawn-out investigative process offers some hope for resolution of the GSD's problems, the odds actually remain slim that the GSD will emerge from the thicket of charge and countercharge that has surrounded it for so long. There are several reasons why escape appears unlikely. First, the long report of the Hartman Review Committee suffers from ambiguity and information gaps that will prevent the faculty from resolving the affair without another in-depth review. Secondly, broad questions of what due process and academic freedom mean in practical application requires University-level study and definition...
...said he did not feel that Yale graduate school's faculty recruitment plans will include Harvard faculty members because the recruits will probably be drawn from business and government...
...people in the family are not the hallelujah holy-rollers I would imagine them to be. They are all young, middle-class, well-educated people. Many are Ivy leaguers, many M.A.'s and PhD's were amongst the family. Despite their education, however, these people were drawn together by factors quite common in young people--dissatisfaction with their lives and a search for truth and direction. The movement fulfills these needs; it tells you what you want to hear and "proves" that there is a God, there is meaning in this crazy life, there is heaven, there is love...