Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until 1958 did Procacci get final authorization and money to tear down the Badia's 17th century east wall. The first chisel strokes opened a hole in the inner wall no bigger than a grapefruit, just large enough for Procacci to put his hand through. The inner surface was smooth, which meant it had been frescoed. "When I saw that there was a lit tle color," he recalls, "my heart skipped a beat...
...flower. Vanessa Redgrave, who plays the ex-wife and won the Best Actress award at Cannes for the performance, is, incidentally, transfixing in her own right. She is puckish and bitter-sweet in everything she does. Kissing her would probably be like taking a swallow of ice-cold grapefruit juice. If you don't want to bother with the symbolism, you can watch Miss Redgrave and have a fine time...
Detroit Defenseman Bill Gadsby was sporting a bruise on his arm the size of a grapefruit. Goalie Roger Crozier had a twisted ankle and a sprained knee. Forward Norm Ullman, the team's top scorer (with 31 goals) during the regular season, was nursing a bruised back. Still, the Red Wings were ahead -and Montreal's Coach Blake was baffled. "We played like amateurs," he moaned. "I just can't understand...
...rule of thumb that dictates regular-season disaster for the team that burns up the Florida Grapefruit Circuit squished the Harvard baseball team last week. After winning five of six games against Rollins, Florida Southern, and Stetson Colleges, the Crimson nine was upset in its Eastern Baseball League opener at Penn...
...even more shocked when Koufax and Drysdale stayed away from spring training and thereby proved to all the world how much the Dodgers needed them: in the preseason Grapefruit League, Los Angeles won only six games, lost twelve, ranked 18th out of 20 teams- five games behind the New York Mets, nine behind the leading Chicago White Sox. O'Malley grudgingly raised his total offer to $210,000. That, he said, was a "final" figure. Koufax and Drysdale looked elsewhere for work. They signed TV and movie contracts, showed up for rehearsals of a thriller called Warning Shot. There...