Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their bombast, Arab leaders indicated that they were inclined to be cautious. In Cairo the 14 nations of the Arab League met for the first time in more than three years and prudently decided against any immediate action. Because of the deep rivalries among so many Arab leaders, the league decided against a summit meeting...
...guilty," says Mosley. But if the defense gets one man who refuses to cast a guilty vote, "it's a hung jury and they're the winners." Then the judge's charge to the jury. "You'll hear all the conditions that have to be met before the jury can return a guilty verdict," said Mosley. "You'll wonder how anyone is ever found guilty...
From the first, it was clear that the true Met fan had to be a man of almost mystical forbearance, untrammeled optimism and infinite compassion for the inept. Born in 1962, when the National League expanded to ten clubs, the Mets promptly lost their first nine games. They finally won one on their tenth try, but defeat was more their style. Baseball, according to a hoary cliche, is a game of inches. The Mets lost by feet, even yards, and they did so with agonizing regularity. In their first seven seasons they threw away the awesome total of 737 games...
...most New Yorkers, the very thought of a Met victory was an alien concept. "In those days," recalls Leftfielder Cleon Jones, "people never even asked if we had won. Most of the time it would have been a silly question." But the fans went on cheering, ever hopeful that some day heroics would replace horselaughs...
Guided by steady, low-keyed Manager Gil Hodges, the Mets' young prodigies are the happiest, hungriest, hustlingest team in baseball, and they seem to have acquired the emotional wherewithal to stand up 'under pressure'. They demonstrated that the last time they faced the Cubs, when they won four of six crucial games. In the opener of a three-game set at Shea Stadium, their home ballpark?the first crucial series ever to involve the Mets?Chicago's crack righthander, Ferguson Jenkins, entered the ninth inning with a 3-1 lead. Minutes later he stalked off the field in disgust...