Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hitters who do. There is the strange case of the black athlete who could do everything-run, steal, hit, field-but who ducked from an inside pitch a microsecond too soon. His fear was his tragic flaw; beanball pitchers got the message and within a season drove the man from the game...
...give the traveler an idea of the pitch of the land. It was impractical, I replied, Kids would probably chuck pennies down on the cars--like from on top of the Empire State Building--causing certain havoc. Fred agreed and abandoned his scheme, but the further we drove, the more the language seemed pregnant with his notion. The road grew from the soil, was entrenched in it and ever spawned by it. The countryside was a vast shoulder to run on to when fatigue became insistent, and the miles only brought darkness and more miles and heavy air and weighted...
...should be high on the agenda. Some say that Juan Beniquez, a left fielder currents injured, would be a good bet to barter. An abominable fielder, he's speedy and a solid punch bitter who engineers enough singles to put him at a steady ...300. His Spanish speaking origins drove one local expert to predict that he would in fact be traded, inevitably, for twelve packs of baseball cards and a print of Birth of a Nation...
...hour after departure, the first helicopter set down gently in an area not far from Beirut while its gunship hovered overhead protectively. The killers were met by waiting Israeli agents, who drove them to a safe house in the Beirut suburbs. From there, a one-word code message was flashed to an Israeli monitoring station, informing Mossad that the team was in place and Operation Caesarea...
Less Pay. Now the scabs themselves are in revolt. The problem is that Hearst continues to pay staff members even less than smaller local papers do, an issue that drove the Guild to strike in the first place. Thus a reporter who earns $229 a week on the Her aid-Examiner (circ. 419,000) could make $298 a week on the nearby Long Beach Independent and Press-Telegram (combined circ. 151,000). The strikebreakers are not permitted to join the Guild as long as the original strike continues, so this year they petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to have...