Word: hap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...either. A lot of parents tell their kids not to smoke cigarettes and they smoke cigarettes. Or they give you some idea of sexual modesty -- but my father lived that way. He believed that making love to someone is a very sacred thing and it shouldn't hap- pen until after you are married. He stuck by those beliefs, and that represented a very strong person to me. He was my role model...
...Hap," as most folks called Chandler then, and practically everyone does still, gave up a perfectly comfortable Senate seat because he imagined the work might be more restful than politics. "As Governor of Kentucky," says Chandler, 85, "I signed 36 death warrants. Two of them were hanged for rape in the courthouse yard." But as he was soon to learn-and as Ford Frick, Spike Eckert and Bowie Kuhn all discovered in turn-the commissioner's job is not unlike presiding at such an occasion while being the object of the exercise at the same time...
...Baseball owners," Hap says, "are the toughest set of ignoramuses anyone could ever come up against. They always have been. Refreshingly dumb fellows: greedy, shortsighted and stupid. They created this job in 1921 only because, after the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the American people needed a symbol of complete authority and absolute integrity. But I don't expect baseball ever really wanted a commissioner at all. When the clubs pushed me out in 1951, they had a vacancy and decided to keep...
Citing the difficulty of drawing conclusions from limited data, Zelen explained, "We're talking about diseases that rarely hap- pen. There may not be enough follow up time for an adequate answer to whether the risks will decimal...
...braggart, of course, has always been present on the American scene, and boasting has been tolerated when it hap pened to come from certain types - poets, entertainers, politicians - who were considered beyond the pale anyhow. It was all right for Walt Whitman to indulge his flagrant self-celebration ("I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious") because, as a poet, he was lost to gentility anyway...