Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airport than its downtown competitors-Century Plaza offers extensive meeting-room facilities. For corporate guests, the hotel has nine board rooms, each with an adjoining private dining room on the mezzanine floor; for conventioneers, there is the immense, 24,000-sq.-ft. Los Angeles Ballroom buried two floors under ground but directly accessible to motorists via ramps...
Later, an icy wind swirled dust into a branding pen. Students rassled struggling calves to the ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi...
...unmarried woman of 30 met a stranger on a bus, invited him home for a meal. Whereupon he broke her arm and raped her. After granting $3,337 compensation, the board slashed it to $2,668 on the ground that the victim was 20% responsible. >A man of 29 was shot by the husband of the woman with whom he was living. The husband went to prison, and the wounded lover got $1,512. >A boy of eight was blinded with a stick by another boy of eight, who could not be charged because ten is the age of criminal...
...another, the fastball is essentially a strikeout pitch. Sandy Koufax may get his kicks out of setting strikeout records, but Marichal would rather save his arm. "It takes at least three pitches to strike a man out," he says matter-of-factly. "It only takes one for a ground ball." In his first two games this year, against Chicago and Houston, Juan did not throw a single fastball. He gave the Cubs three hits and the Astros seven, won by scores...
Prix Driver (and 1962 champion) Graham Hill, 37, who on his first try at Indy ground around the course at an average speed of 144.317 m.p.h., the slowest since...