Word: everly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have heard of Eddie Gaedel. At 3'7, he is the shortest person ever to play in a major-league game. In a stunt in 1951, Bill Veeck, owner of the St. Louis Browns, sent Gaedel to bat. He instructed Gaedel to stand at the plate and not swing and Gaedel promptly walked on four pitches...
...while Gaedel never again appeared in a game, he went down in the Guiness Book of World Records as the shortest person ever to play in the major leagues. His picture is surely somewhere in Cooperstown...
...choreography was some of the most challenging I've ever tried to dance," he said. "But it was a lot of fun just giving it my all. Last weekend was one of the most intense theatre experiences...
...became a Harvard-Radcliffe couple without ever really intending to," Jane Knowles says. She explains that, at the time, there was hardly another job in the area more removed from her husband...
...Ever since the passage of Roe v. Wade, abortion-rights activists have feared that abortion opponents, by chipping away at federal law, could eventually succeed in having abortions classified as murders. But this bill, says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, is unlikely to create much of a dent. "I very much doubt that this bill will pass," he says, "and even if it did, it would probably be struck down by the Supreme Court, since it flies in the face of the court?s existing stand on reproductive rights." If defeat is almost guaranteed, what?s in this campaign...