Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late 1976, Montgomery Ward, which had been selling the 500 under its own "Grappler 8000" label, reported to Firestone that returns had reached "epidemic proportions," which "amplifies the fact we were given a bad product...
...late. Louis Clark Brock turns 40 this week, an age when most major leaguers are sauntering to the mailbox in search of invitations to oldtimers' games, but he managed to beat out another grounder. It was the 2,947th hit in a major league career that stretches back to 1961. If he stays healthy, Brock will surely get his 3,000th hit this season. That accomplishment would guarantee him a place in baseball's Hall of Fame -if he had not already earned his spot another way: by stealing 921 bases, breaking Ty Cobb's career record...
...lighter moment at Czestochowa, John Paul said at a Mass for priests: "In Rome they say the best things the Pope says are not in his prepared texts. You are enjoying yourselves now, but I will have a row later on for being late for my next appointment." The fact that the Pope's Italian staff objected to his ad-libbing and fretted about his getting behind schedule became a standing joke between the Pope and the Polish crowds...
...marvelous race by the inexperienced colt and his veteran jockey, Ruben Hernandez. Coastal had raced but three times this year after an eye injury late in his two-year-old season forced a long layoff. He was fresh and ready to run the Belmont distance, and run he did. Hernandez held him off the lead through the first mile of the race, rating him gently behind the leaders, well outside of traffic. Meanwhile, Spectacular Bid's jockey, Ron Franklin, pushed his colt to the front as the horses moved out of the clubhouse turn and into the long backstretch...
Like Nixon, President Frankling discovers that he cannot protect his lies. For one thing, a crewman on the yacht can blow his story. But unlike Nixon, this President does not wait until it is too late. He confesses on television, promising not to seek re-election but pleading to be allowed to finish his term. Clearly, Ehrlichman believes Nixon could have saved himself by making a similar confession before he became fatally entangled in his tapes. Ehrlichman probably is right...