Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easily trebled as I marvel at the clarity, the wit, the gay dispatch with which critics have flayed the hide off poor Norman Mailer (who cares so terribly much what they think--even the ones he most despises) and left him in paunchy, shivering nakedness, his eyes to the ground, his hands over his genitals, like some pugnacious locker-room bull artist exposed as a virgin in front of the whole damn team...
With Leo only 90 feet away from a tie ball game, all the next batter had to do was bit the ball on the ground. Tom Bilo deau took a strike, bunted foul, and then fouled out to the first baseman. At this point B.U.'s ace pitcher Ron Girolimon entered the game and retired pinchhitter Dan Hootstein on a grounder to third, ending the threat. Girolimon mowed down the Crimson with little difficulty in the eighth and ninth innings...
...letter to the New York Times Hoffmann said that revolutionary wars have always been won on the ground and that decisive ground battles cannot be won in South Vietnam since the rebellion is too large and the central government too ineffective...
...flaps have been surprisingly few. In negotiations over whether Comsat or the communications users should own the permanent ground stations in the U.S., Comsat found itself at odds with its largest single stockholder-American Telephone & Telegraph. The question was tossed to the Federal Communications Commission, which must reach a decision soon so that Comsat can draw up a proposed schedule of rates. But these are minor irritations. Comsat still promises to give the world a revolutionary new communications system...
...thoughtful demurrers from Churchill's scientific adviser, Professor F. A. Lindemann (Trevor Howard). "It's a balloon," he remarks, peering through his pipe smoke at photographs of the Peenemünde launching site. And: "If it were a rocket, it could never get off the ground...