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...when freshman leftfielder Marcel Durand and Co-Captain Frank Caprio both walked in the fourth inning, B.C. Coach Ed Pellagrini brought in Tim Smith to replace Fitzgerald, even though he had a no-hitter going...
...weird replay of the previous inning, McConaghy's hard grounder struck Cobb for the first out of the inning. But with the bases still loaded, Durand blasted a double to the rightfield wall to drive in O'Connell and Konjoyan and knot the score...
...bill is way overdue--it's a crime that protection for homosexuals hasn't been provided for," said State Rep. Robert A. Durand (D-Marlborough), who pushed for the bill last spring in the House and is actively lobbying the Senate for support...
When London Merchant Peter Durand patented the tin can in 1810, the world was changed forever. Canning revolutionized life on the farm, in the kitchen, on the battlefield. In the 20th century, life would seem primitive and deprived without cans. In 1986 some 102 billion canned items were manufactured. One category of container, the aluminum easy-open beverage can (69 billion produced last year), has so proliferated that the mere existence of empties has engendered a brand-new folk industry. Can picking, some call...
Roosevelt called the President of Venezuela "a pithecanthropoid," according to Morris, and once referred to the lionized George Bernard Shaw as "a blue-rumped ape." Sir Mortimer Durand, His Majesty's Ambassador to the U.S. back then, was denounced as a fellow with "a mind that functions at six guinea-pig power." The Populist Senator William Peffer was immortalized as "a well-meaning, pinheaded, anarchistic crank, of hirsute and slab-sided aspect." That latter bit might make it a little difficult for the victim to throw off the effects with a laugh. Still, all of Morris' research...