Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote the story, both belong to TIME'S softball team, which plays in Central Park and so far has been undefeated this year. Phillips is one of the nation's few top-notch woman sportswriters. A baseball devotee since she was little, she used to write fan letters to Willie Mays. "It's hard to explain why you love baseball without sounding like a professor or a 10-year-old kid," says Phillips. "A case can be made for the mental elegance of the game-its beauty, its symmetry, its exquisite timelessness. The other side...
...Nationalist China, the defection to Taiwan last week of Communist Squadron Commander Fan Yuan-yen in his MiG-19 was the best piece of news since the death of Mao Tse-tung nearly a year ago. Radio stations played stirring martial music between special news flashes, and people set off firecrackers in the streets in celebration...
...Defector Fan turned out to be an ideal spokesman for Taipei's view. "I couldn't take it any more," he said after touching down at Tainan airbase in southern Taiwan. "There is simply no freedom on the mainland." Fan, who had been thinking of defecting for many years, prepared for his escape by listening to broadcasts from Taiwan giving directions on routes and proper signals for defectors to use. His opportunity came when his unit was transferred last month to a base in Fukien province, just across the Taiwan Strait...
...just didn't make sense. After all the class and strong play the team had shown thus far in jetting to an 18-3 record, it would still be an uphill basepath to post-season competition. To the unobjective fan it seemed unfair, to the Harvard baseball team it didn't seem to matter. The ballclub was so uniformed in confidence that the challenge of the Eastern League was welcomed. There was very little now that needed to be proved. The freshmen had shown their consistent talent, Loyal Park had reaffirmed...
...fire alarms that emptied Widener Library Tuesday afternoon were probably caused by a fan blowing on a heat detector, Robbie Mesheau, a Buildings and Grounds fire equipment supervisor, said yesterday...