Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walking a beach nude with a knife-belt strapped about her when Bond first sees her. In the movie, Actress Ursula Andress fills a wet bikini as if she were going downwind behind twin spinnakers. In the book, the villainous Doctor No is buried alive inside a 20-ft. mound of bird droppings. In the movie, he is cleanly boiled in a nuclear reactor...
Yankee center fielder Mickey Mantle may have almost won the American League batting title, but he batted a puny .120 against the Giant mound corps. Teammate Roger Maris did manage one home run in the sixth game (a losing cause, but his four hits in 25 at bats still put him well below the .200 mark for the seven-game series...
...Friday," said San Francisco manager Alvin Dark as he stalked off the field at Candlestick Park yesterday. The invading New York Yankees, with veteran lefthander Whitey Ford on the mound, had just beaten Dark's Giants 6-2. The playing was as lopsided as the score indicated...
...MOUND--Had the Giants not just played a three game play-off, pitching superiority would automatically be ceded to them. Jack Sanford (22-7), Juan Marichal (13-10), Billy O'Dell (19-14), and Billy Pierce (13-6) give them a great foursome of starters, and Stu Miller, Don Larsen, and Mike McCormick are more than adequate in relief. Against this lineup put Whitey Ford (17-8), Ralph Terry (23-12), Bill Stafford (14-9) and Bud Daley (5-3). Pretty obvious who's better. Marshall Bridges (3.17 ERA) is one of the best reliefers in the business...
Crawling through tunnels less than two feet high, three architects of the expedition made the first modern survey of the underground passages and the marble chamber, concealed deeply within the 200-foot high mound...