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...played outfield and applied to pitch. With customary Third Baseman Tom Brookens rubbing a hamstring, Castillo has suddenly become a central character and beat out a double play in the second inning of the last game to furnish the essential run. He has a fine sense of mischief: "A few years ago, they came up to me and not.' said, Some 'You're a tune later, catcher.' I catching said, in the 'No, bull I'm pen, I trotted in for a drink of water and I'm they not.' said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tigers Lying in Wait | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...remark may have been ill advised. Nevertheless, even the dullest-witted reporter would have known that it was a joke and its publication could only create mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1984 | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...head of one of their oppressors, a certain Captain Thomas Lovell. "It was only the intervention of 'a gentlewoman' who happened to be passing," reports Lady Antonia, "which dissuaded the women from their violent course, otherwise they would have done the captain 'some great mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Soldiers and Acid Tongues | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Valerie is a New Jersey mother of two boys, age two and three, whom she describes as "little monsters full of mischief." Her husband works as a truck driver, and money is tight. The family of four is living with her mother while they save for an apartment of their own. One day last March, Valerie, 23, who prefers to remain anonymous, saw the following advertisement in a local New Jersey paper: Surrogate mother wanted. Couple unable to have child willing to pay $10,000 fee and expenses to woman to carry husband's child. Conception by artificial insemination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Surrogate's Story | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...splattering paint on walls, floors and themselves. Then they went to a small bedroom to clean up. They removed their paint-flecked clothes and splashed a gasoline solvent over their bodies, letting it pool on the floor. Then, for some reason, one of the boys struck a match, and mischief turned to tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Miracle of Test-Tube Skin | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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