Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What with corked bats and cut balls, and even a minor league potato thrown into one game, baseball has been caught up in equipment this year. But when everything was finally sanded off and boiled away, after the New York Mets were ground into powder and Reggie Jackson evaporated entirely, the Minnesota Twins, the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals awaited either Toronto or Detroit and this week's play-offs...
...campaign to admit taking shots at Biden on the eve of the hearings he conducted on Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. , Furious Democrats regarded the video as undermining the effort to defeat Bork, an important party cause. Even so, the embarrassment would have been minor compared with what actually occurred...
...pretty intense there at the end," Sasner said. "They were all over us." The Eagle flurry caused a few minor cardiac arrests on the bench, "and in the box, too," Whitley said...
HARVARD OFFICIALS have displayed this readiness to cancel events in the face of minor incidents several times, most notably during the Kent-Brown incident last year, when several Harvard students attempted a blockade during the South African diplomat's speech. Harvard Police rushed Kent-Brown out of the room as the blockade formed, and Dean Epps ended the speech without an attempt to negotiate with the protestors--even though the students presented no physical threat to the speaker and had left the front entrance to the auditorium clear...
OBVIOUSLY, the University must not tolerate violent protests such as Laub's attack. However, there is no need to cancel a speech every time a minor disruption occurs...