Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catcher Carlton Fisk, who stole the spotlight from him with an outstanding rookie season in 1972. "For a while it was like I didn't exist," Munson later said. He could be surly in public, and never bothered with the art of image making. He conducted a celebrated feud with George Steinbrenner when the Yankee owner signed Reggie Jackson to a more lucrative contract than his. Munson's salary was finally renegotiated; he signed a four-year pact averaging $420,000 annually through 1981-but he never forgot that his boss "embarrassed...
...plot condenses the turmoil of the 1960s, exploring dislocations between generations, races and cultures. Lev, a Russian dissident, joins his family in the U.S. after 20 years of imprisonment. He finds that his disaffected son Yuri is entangled through a girlfriend in a feud with a Muhammad Ali-like superstar named Olympion. The feud erupts in a ritualistic race riot in which Yuri is nearly killed. Under its impact, all the relationships in the opera are splintered into despair and confusion...
...Black Eyes Sinatra resumes a feud...
...NOTEBOOK: Kelley got a hit in each of the Army games to finish the season with a fifteen-game streak....The highlight of the return bus trip was the intense competition in the home version of "Family Feud." The team of Kelley, Stewart, Pearce, and Dan Doctoroff took the championship, while M.C. duties were handled by Mike "Our survey said!" Stenhouse...
Sure, some residents of the standstill town of Winterthur (pop. 88,000) in the German-speaking part of Switzerland had long felt that the place could use a little excitement. But a pop religious cult gone bananas, a running feud between town and saffron gown, allegations of planted bombs in rosebushes and naked-altar ceremonies in postcard-pretty woods? This was more than anybody had bargained...