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Word: grapefruits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back. There are 30 of us with three cartons of food. We march around Low, making our presence known, and spontaneously and at the wrong tactical place the blacks we have in front jump into the jock line. I go charging through the gap with my box of grapefruit and quickly become upon the ground, or, more accurately, on top of two layers of people and beneath two. I manage to throw three grapefruit, two of which make it. Then I become back where I started. Some blood is visible on both sides. Back at Math, some of our people...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Force One-and-a-Half. His enjoyment of his new, liberated role is palpable, his optimism unbounded. He is starting late and missing the primaries, but he dismisses those as "spring training, the grapefruit league," necessary only for those who need to build a national reputation. He has already visited 600 towns and cities in all 50 states since becoming Vice President. He will be returning to a lot of them, of course, and to speed his way he has chartered an imposingly appointed Boeing 727 that will replace his aging official Convair. The President flies in Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ONCE & FUTURE HUMPHREY | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

winds up 18th in the Grapefruit League standings, the question is: What's wrong? The answer is nothing-not when that same team wins six out of its first eight regular-season games in a row, outscormg the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Twins on a Tear | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...fruit trees that we see on both sides of the road are tall. I am not much of an expert but it seems to me that they are just as full of oranges, lemons or grapefruit as their Israeli counterparts. The road is narrow but well paved...

Author: By Yehudy Lindeman, | Title: Bogeymen in the Mid-East | 4/9/1968 | See Source »

Yesterday the Sox lost 4-3 in 12 innings to the Minnesota Twins, dropping their spring record to 6-11 for ninth place in the American half of the Grapefruit League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratic Pitching Hampers Bosox In Shaky Spring | 3/26/1968 | See Source »

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