Word: feller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Name the young Tiger who defeated Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians to win the 1940 American League Pennant...
...Time" Buffett does a 6-minute monologue called "God's Own Drunk," wherein the hero is guarding a still, gets overcome by temptation, takes a few slashes, commences to get hot flashes, metamorphoses into God's Own Drunk and a fearless man, then sees "The Bear...a Kodiak-looking feller, bout 19 feet tall," who rambles over and "looks me in the eyes, and mine were a lot redder than his. It hung him up." It's not enough because the spell is shattered--Buffett succumbed just once, but it's shadow of things to come...
With a fastball that has been clocked at 100.9 m.p.h. (3 m.p.h. faster than Bob Feller's and 7 m.p.h. faster than Sandy Koufax's), Ryan's influence on a game isn't surprising. Nor is his record. He has struck out more batters (383) in a single season than anyone in baseball history, pitched as many no-hitters (3) as Feller, and has thrown four one-hitters, six two-hitters and 14 three-hitters. This year, after two seasons as a 20-game winner, Ryan is setting a 30-win pace with eight victories...
...like tonight. It's like this. I can't leave him. You grow to love a person and you cain't cut it off. But he cain't give me what I want any more. Now I'm not talking about going out and finding a young feller or nothing...But sometimes you jes have to lay down with somebody...every now and then...to feel right...
...this poses a problem I wouldn't know how to solve," admits Berkeley's labor law expert David Feller. Various suggestions include work sharing, in which no one gets the pink slip but everyone has fewer hours on the job. Another is "inverse seniority," which would allow older employees, who have high, contractual unemployment benefits, to take the brunt of layoffs. The agricultural manufacturer, Deere & Co., has worked out such an arrangement on a voluntary basis. But volunteers can hardly provide a general answer. That will have to come from new legislation or the U.S. Supreme Court...