Word: leached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ashby Leach, 30, a Viet Nam veteran, held nine hostages for nine hours in the Cleveland offices of the Chessie System Inc., where he worked, and demanded he be given a leave of absence to take courses under the G.I. Bill. Result: the company agreed and he gave...
...course, had to overcome the handicap of being unable to communicate with his fellow fielders. Many of his teammates learned sign language. But the men who played alongside him, for example Tommy Leach during the 1899 season and Hall of Famer Wahoo Sam Crawford during 1902, listened for a sort of throaty squeak he made when calling for a ball...
...last season was 1902, but his prime years were the two he spent at Louisville. Hoy's roommate then was Leach, who was just beginning his 19-year career as one of the game's outstanding place hitters. In 1898, Dummy batted .304 and the following year...
...part of Tom, the alcoholic, can only be convincing when the entire play is working. He is the most poorly developed character, the one we know the least about; he circles around the action making caustic comments without permitting anyone to know him. William Leach fills the bill competently although his final breakdown is incomprehensible to us, having been given no previous background about his character. Leach does not handle this weakness in Miller's script very well; and apparently he too failed to find the motivation for his character's collapse...
Cole Stevens as the mayor does not have Leach's excuse; George's development is clearly delineated in the play's action. With little subtlety, Stevens lapses into an Outer Limits-like trance which is supposed to resemble a nervous collapse, but just looks plain silly...