Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dave Parker, the Pittsburgh Pirates' All Star rightfielder, gave Willie Stargell his nickname, and the title was a matter of some consideration. "I called him Pops because, like a father, he taught us how to take what comes and then come back," Parker explained after Stargell had won the Most Valuable Player award in the National League playoffs. "He showed us how to strike out and walk away calmly, lay the bat down gently, then get up the next time and get a home run. From him we learned not to get too high on the good days...
...Children) and Terrence McNally (Bad Habits). The directors are Jack Hofsiss (The Elephant Man), Jeff Bleckner (Sticks and Bones), and Film Maker James Ivory (The Europeans). The cast features several of America's strong actors. No matter...
...mathematical vestments." The googol is the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros (see above). It was made famous, or infamous, in the 1930s by Mathematician Edward Kasner. He also offered the googolplex, which is 1 followed by a googol of zeros - so many zeros, said Kasner, that no matter how tiny they could not all be written on a piece of paper as wide as the visible universe...
...matter how you choose to define "successful," the word applies to the Harvard women's soccer team, which raised its season record to a pristine 10-0 by condemning Princeton, 4-0, Saturday at Soldiers Field...
...most students, though, CUE is supposed to be the one organization which directly works with the Faculty Council and proposes educational changes to the Faculty. But no matter how persuasively a CUE student member defends a student proposal--such as the recommendation last year to expand credit for study abroad--all decisions ultimately rest with the Faculty Council, and no student is allowed to participate in Council discussions. With Bowersock's permission, a CUE student member may present his case to the Faculty Council, but he must leave before the Council begins debate...