Word: mound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebuke to violence, 1,000 New York schoolchildren turned a mound of toy guns and comics?including Superman and Combat?over to trash collectors. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward stopped mail-order gun sales after King's assassination; Macy's, Alexander's and Abraham & Straus in New York had quit selling guns even before that. Last week Ohio's J-Mart discount stores gave their entire $20,000 inventory of guns to the Columbus police...
Harvard faces Cornell Friday with pitching ace Ray Peters on the mound...
...agents for Mr. Henry Self, owner of the 2000 acre Posey Mound Plantation, explained to me that the families had been kicked off because "they didn't want to work. They seemed to be of the opinion that they could run the place." He pointed out that families had been leaving the plantation for years. In the early 1940's it had supported 50 families. Now 12 tractors worked the fields. Fewer than 15 families remained, many out of the charity of Mr. Self...
Meet Jerry Koosman, 24. "I haven't had this much fun since my third-grade picnic," says Koosman, a slightly flaky 6-ft. 3-in., 205-lb. farmboy from Appleton, Minn. (pop. 3,000), who had seen only two major-league games before he first took the mound for the Mets, and whose performance so far this spring is startling even to his manager. "I wish I could take credit for him," said a dazed Gil Hodges, after Koosman posted a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros last week...
...mock defense of the ad game, Welles proposes that "the main product in the 20th century is waste" and predicts that in 200 years the world will be standing on a huge mound of garbage. Possibly. And close to the bottom will be this story of a Fake's Progress that is as false as an ?8 note...