Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...iron tanks. Bitterly, I look to my leaders to find them afraid of intervening, yet ever anxious to send more and more troops to a corner in Southeast Asia, where they care about neither Communism nor freedom. I turn to the United Nations and find them playing a game that they can never win. And most bitterly of all I turn to face the hippies, the beatniks and all the other dropouts who profess to be lost souls, wandering in search of something to believe in. Yet all the time that lost ideal has been shining brightly in front...
...Real Ball Game. Fully 40% of the Democratic delegates stood in opposition to the Administration's policy?and by implication, Humphrey's. Even so, the Viet Nam uproar proved no real threat to the Vice President's hopes of gaining the nomination. The greatest threat came, instead, in an evanescent move to draft Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy...
...bedroom colonial house in Bethesda, Md., but also maintain a vacation cottage in Kennebunk Beach, Me. The Senator fishes and hunts in the Maine woods, sails off the coast, and is an amateur carpenter. He has also become an enthusiastic golfer in the last four years, although his game sometimes looks like spring plowing. The golf can hardly be easy on his nerves. While usually self-effacing, Muskie has been known to have a volcanic temper...
...majors, and the pension rules set a five-year minimum. Bartholomay makes it clear that charity has nothing to do with signing Satch. "With his tremendous background," said Bartholomay, "Paige is expected to be a great help in working with young players." He may even get into a game or two. After all, in his final appearance with the A's, at the age of 60 or thereabouts, he held the Boston Red Sox scoreless for three innings...
...quickly infiltrated the state's broad, interconnected drainage system. When scattered specimens began appearing in the canals and ponds of Palm Beach County in 1967, they were largely ignored. But this spring, astounded Fort Lauderdale residents discovered catfish scuttling across their lawns at night and the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission assigned two scientists to investigate...