Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill Lee, the Boston starter, had staggered off the field a victim of the brawl, looking dazed and crippled even from the oxygen-mask territory of the upper deck. About a third of the Stadium crowd, far more than had earlier expressed Beantown loyalty, cheered Rick Burleson's ensuing two-run homer that began what ended as an 8-2 Bosox rout...
...feel there should be less circuitous ways out of a bad marriage. Walter Braun, a retired Army officer living in Lawrence, Kans., believes the church is in effect granting divorces without admitting it. "They give a lot of annulments now. It's a cop-out." Asks Washington Attorney Lee Murphy, who is no longer a practicing Catholic because he is divorced and remarried: "Why can a man kill a guy and be forgiven by the church, yet I cannot say, 'Father, I made a terrible mistake. I picked the wrong woman, and it was a disaster...
...which was put into effect in most U.S. parishes this past Lenten season. It is now a longer process often involving face-to-face easy-chair conversation between penitent and priest (TIME, March 15), although those who prefer it can retain the anonymity of the old screened confessional. Says Lee Roach, 41, a Delta Air Lines pilot and usher at St. Jude's parish in Sandy Springs, Ga.: "We're encouraged to examine our motives. Now, when you go to confession, the priest may ask you, 'Do you believe you were sinning? Was it a turning away...
...changed the entire flavor of his character-a bounty hunter called Robert E. Lee Clayton-inventing a deadly hand weapon resembling both a harpoon and a mace that he uses to kill. "I always wondered why in the history of lethal weapons no one invented that particular one. It appealed to me because I used to be very expert at knife throwing...
Good news and bad news otherwise marked the Beantowners' win. The good: Carl Yastrzemski lifted two homers into the seats, giving him five in two nights. The bad: Bill "Spaceman" Lee suffered a shoulder injury during the fisticuffs and will be out "indefinitely," according to team physician Dr. Edward Crane last night...