Word: mcbrides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highlight of the game came at the end of the final period, when Colby's left defenseman Bob McBride elbowed Kinasewich, who dropped his gloves and slugged him back...
Soon the ice was a mass of battling hockey players. When the refs had finally separated the brawling teams and assessed penalties, Kinasewich and McBride had been thrown out, many of the others had received minor penalties...
Rigney and pitching coach March Grissom have handled the L.A. pitching staff superbly. With only one consistent starter, Ken McBride (11-4), the staff has totalled an incredible 316 appearances in 106 games this season. Although only McBridge has over eight wins, Dean Chance, Bo Belinsky, and Don Lee have been effective both as starters and relievers, and Rigney has even coazed good performance from the like of Ryne Duren and Eli Grbas...
Ignoring the gibes of colleagues. Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens. By listening to the oinks and grunts of teen-age swine (8 to 16-week age bracket), he hoped to fathom their social order, to learn how to make them more comfortable and faster growing. He failed, mostly because the young swine were made into hams and bacon before he got to know them well...
...McBride concluded that pigs have a vocabulary of at least ten easily distinguishable squeals and grunts, most of which express mood or emotion. A high-pitched squeal means distress or pain. A lower-pitched squeal, very common with pigs, says "I'm hungry." A short squeal like a dog's yelp means "I give up." Grunts are more subtle, says McBride...