Word: lennings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Len Barker of the Cleveland Indians threw a perfect game against the Toronto Blue Jays, the first since 1968. For five points each, who pitched the '68 game, and what team did he beat...
...Len Deighton Knopf; 339 pages...
...Sound and the Führer are overfamiliar: an old Nazi project threatens to shake the contemporary world to its foundations. But Spy Master Len Deighton enlivens the pseudo history with some new turns, among them a face-to-face meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Time: 1940. Place: a Belgian bunker. Topic: the surrender of Britain. The Prime Minister, of course, refuses in the end. But so sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise...
...bitter, cynical Sweeney Todd, Hearn is more hard-boiled in his determination for revenge than the New York Sweeney, Len Cariou. Though he's missing Cariou's subtle glee, Hearn nonetheless rivets us to Todd's obsessive mission. Failing once to exterminate the dastardly judge, his "Epiphany" is the anguished outcry of a crazed beast in its dying fury. The production's demonicism reaches its zenith in "A Little Priest", when Hearn and Lansbury combine to offer the occupants of society's beehive as ingredients for their delectable pies...
...aware that Harvard is strong up front and has one excellent line," said Boston College coach Len Ceglarski, referring to the Olson-Watson-Murray "Instant Karma" unit. "We've been skating very well, but our problem has been that when we make one mistake, the other team capitalizes. We can't seem to take advantage of our opportunities," Ceglarski added, citing "four or five missed two-on-ones" against Princeton as evidence...