Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share of the guilt and we must carry it. But if any person is without sin, let him throw the first stone. Fifty years after the end of the war, the veil of secrecy is finally being lifted. And it is not only the Swiss who are looking for fame, power and money. LOUIS NIEDERER Winterthur, Switzerland...
...Baseball Hall of Fame selection committee recently finished choosing this year's inductees, and the man who collected 4,256 hits will once again be conspicuously absent from the August ceremony. Pete Rose may have bet on baseball games, but that's no reason to keep him out of Cooperstown...
...Baseball Hall of Fame was not formed to honor good people. If it were, Mother Teresa would be a member, and Ty Cobb, a vicious player who once attacked a man with no arms, would not. The Hall honors players for their proficiency on the field. Pete Rose holds the career records for hits, at bats and games played. No organization can claim to enshrine the best players in baseball if it does not count Rose as one of its members...
Speaking from his experience as a manager for the Colorado Silver Bullets Female Professional Baseball Team, Hall of Fame inductee Phil Niekro described his initial skepticism toward a female baseball team...
...think the Ad Board engages in some sketchy practices, listen to this recent incident of national fame: a week and a half ago, the F.B.I. released a "terrorist threat advisory" and a composite sketch of two men believed to be driving a U-Haul truck filled with enough ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel to blow up several small homes or one larger government complex--a bomb potentially on par with the one that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City only two years ago. After catching the men, the armed Federal agents discovered--much to their embarrassment, I would imagine...