Word: gladding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...almost three, Lisa looks forward to nursery school in the fall. And just in case anyone is in the market for cuter baby pictures, the Haraps will be glad to oblige: the couple learned last week that Lisa will have a new brother or sister next spring...
...people picture me running over Ray Fosse in the All-Star Game [of 1970]." Scoring the winning run, Rose spread the catcher like apple butter. Fosse's shoulder and career came unhinged. "I wish it hadn't happened," Rose says. "It ruined that kid." But he adds, "I'm glad we won the game." Regarding comparisons with Cobb, Rose joins in few of the arguments. "I don't steal bases like he did, and he didn't wear a tie on the road like I do." It will be fine with Rose if people continue to think Cobb is baseball...
...hitter has become precise. Clemente had 3,000 hits exactly. That Carew, 39, would get the single for California against his old team, the Minnesota Twins, was another wonder of happenstance. But his shorter ration of the day's glory was predictable. When Carew said, "I'm just very glad it's over," the sigh recalled Henry Aaron's relief in 1974 after hitting the 715th home run that bettered Babe Ruth. "Aaron was as good as Willie Mays," Pete Rose thinks, "just not as famous." In the year of Rose's assault on Ty Cobb, Carew took his usual...
...just blathering." Actually, he confesses, "good" is not good enough. "Under this thin veneer of modesty lies a monster of greed. I drive away faint praise, beating my little chest, waiting to be named Sun God, King of America, Idol of Millions. I don't want to say 'Thanks, glad you liked it.' I want to say 'Rise, my people...
...elected in the social sciences, Carlisle, who studies ethnomusicology as a subfield, said, “The public face of social science here tends to be economics, and while the folks in Littauer certainly do a lot of important work, I’m glad there is also an ethnomusicologist out there to round out the picture...