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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several months, but when spring training began, Carew placed long long-distance calls, reaffirming his affection. "It was nice before," says Marilynn, "but by now it was love, already." When the season started, they confronted her family at Passover Seder. Her nieces and nephews hung out a sign: GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. When her mother saw Marilynn's engagement ring, she hugged Carew, cried and said: "Just take care of my baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Best Hitter Tries for Glory | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...pointedly called him "boy" as he wrote up the ticket. The policeman later had the temerity to ask Carew to visit his father, who was dying of cancer. Carew went. After an emotional bedside scene with the son and father, Carew returned to tell his wife: "I guess this is how you change people, one at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Best Hitter Tries for Glory | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...plot summary goes against the grain of this poorly-plotted movie; your guess is as good as mine--I doubt whether even the movie makers agreed (or cared) about what was going on. No one explains how an ex-banker turns into a talented teamster, or why the oil company does not simply fly some explosives from the States (no air trip could be more dangerously turbulent than the truck ride). What is certain is that for the rest of this long movie we watch two trucks with four truck drivers negotiate some difficult roads in the rain. Along...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: A Splatter of Blood | 7/12/1977 | See Source »

...killing a Yale student. Since Erik was underage, he confessed that he had pulled the trigger. He told New Haven Prosecutor Michael Whalen: "The most you're going to give me is two years." Erik, in fact, was bound over to adult court. At his trial last month, guess what? Erik denied doing the shooting. It did not help. He was convicted and sentenced to 15 years to life. Says Whalen: "He showed no awareness of conscience or remorse. He grinned like crazy. He probably figures that prison is not a hell of a lot worse than other places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YOUTH CRIME PLAGUE | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

With not even enough time to second-guess, the team was on a plane to West Point less than 15 hours later. Harvard started its second and final Big Weekend with a superbly played 10-3 thrashing of the Cadets. Clifford on the mound was even stronger than in his Princeton performance, and Jenkins started his first game of the season and responded with a long triple to left, Meanwhile in center field. Singleton added yet another exclamation point to his outstanding all-around season with a diving catch to quell an Army uprising...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Harvard Baseball '77: A Tale of What's Coming | 7/8/1977 | See Source »

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