Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cincinnati--The Reds have all the potential to win the title, but they also have an unnerving affinity for the injury and the choke. Lee May and Tony Perez are among the best young players in baseball...
...even more stunning defeat for the Union than the first-and McClellan, a good organizer if nothing else, was given the task of putting the Union's forces back together. "Again," he wrote his wife, "I have been called upon to save the country." In September 1862, Lee invaded the North for the first time, and-with sensational luck-McClellan's men came upon a copy of his orders, detailing the exact positions of the divided rebel army. "Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee," said McClellan, "I will be willing...
Joseph Hooker took charge from Burnside with appropriate swagger-"May God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none"-and quickly gave Lee his most brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, where the Northern army was nearly routed by a force half its size. Federal dead numbered 17,000. In the summer of 1863, Lee prepared his second invasion of the North. George Meade, called in at the last minute to replace the bumbling Hooker, turned back the new thrust with considerable competence at Gettysburg-"General Meade will make no blunder on my front," Lee had correctly predicted...
...scene was Manhattan's St. Clement's Episcopal Church, which is in the theatrical district and whose congregation, according to a church spokesman, is "concerned with the same things that Joan and David are." The nuptials were performed by the Rev. Thomas Lee Hayes, 35, executive director of the Manhattan-based Episcopal Peace Fellowship. Hayes chose the Anglican Church of Canada's Book of Common Prayer instead of the American text. The Canadian version, Hayes explained, "has some phrases that I consider more beautiful, and also it was a nice way of remembering those in exile...
...result in one case was that Brooks Lee Anderson, a Negro who was convicted of rape in Tennessee, will not get a new trial because he failed to prove that the continual absence of Negroes on local jury panels was the result of racial discrimination. In the other, five plaintiffs seeking damages for wrongful death and personal injuries in the crash of an Alitalia plane near Shannon Airport in 1960 will be allowed to sue for more than the $8,300 limit then in effect because the limitation was stated in such small print that it was too difficult...