Word: mayest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time of year thou mayest in Casey Stengel behold a lot of the old juice. As he has for the past 52 years, "the perfessor," 75, arrived for spring training, flying to the New York Mets' camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he started a verbal pepper game with the press. Though he retired as Mets manager in 1965, Case still works as their West Coast scout, and after looking over the lads, he announced: "The future of this here ball club is brighter." For one thing, said Case, there is Tommy Davis, acquired from the Los Angeles...
Occasionally the Bible led him to a site that demanded digging. He had long been fascinated by a verse describing the Promised Land as a place "whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." The word brass seems to be a mistranslation for copper, and though Palestine was not noted for producing the metal, Glueck trusted his Biblical Baedeker and kept looking for signs of ancient copper mining...