Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elder Superstar. There were early signs that game No. 3 would be something different. Pirate Righthander Steve Blass, relying on a humming fastball and a sneaky slider, held the Orioles to one run and two hits through the first seven innings. The Pirates had two runs of their own when the last half of the seventh inning began with Roberto Clemente at bat, the 37-year-old rightfielder playing his 17th season with the Pirates. He bounced to Oriole Pitcher Mike Cuellar for what looked like a routine out. At least Cuellar thought so, until he caught sight of Roberto...
...successful efforts to give Indians top positions in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He fought for the return of the Blue Lake area sacred to the Taos Pueblo tribe of New Mexico. When the Indians were finally summoned to Washington to receive title to the land, one grateful elder asked: "Where's the Secretary?" Wally Hickel by then had been, in his word, "terminated...
...Talese shows, a peculiarly American life. In less than two hours, he was scheduled to present himself at the L.A. Federal Building to begin serving a four-year prison term. The humiliation lay not in the illegality of what he had done, but in its insignificance. As the elder son of the once powerful New York Mafia Boss Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, Bill was used to stripping down rolls of hundred-dollar bills to pay for his incidentals. Now he stood convicted of fraudulently using another man's Diners Club card...
...mobile ambition. And though the hall and lawns continuously awe him, it is the rulers, the adults, the gentlemen and ladies who ignore him, who fascinate him. Even the hall can be a setting for childish games, and its acquiescent housekeepers offer some degree of home comfort. But the elder Maudsleys are to Leo mythical figures, inhabitants of yet-another distant country. Beneath the way of life they share with him, the feel incomprehensible things; Leo is determined to understand their recondite passions...
Skinner came rather slowly to his conviction that such changes can be made; his early interests, in fact, were far from psychology. Born in Susquehanna, Pa., in 1904, he was the elder son of Grace Burrhus, an amateur musician who sang at weddings and funerals, and William Skinner, a lawyer who was "a sucker for book salesmen." In his "Sketch for an Autobiography," Skinner describes his early life as "warm and stable." He lived in the same house until he went to college. He was never physically punished by his father and only once by his mother?when she washed...