Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they say often carries more weight." By contrast, at women's colleges, notes Wellesley President Nannerl Keohane, female students not only enjoy "equal * opportunity, but every opportunity." This pays off, she insists, when graduates go out into the real and frequently sexist world: "When they do hit their first mound of prejudice, instead of saying, 'I'm not ready for this,' they will say, 'I know I can do this. I did it at Wellesley...
MORE RECENTLY, the aversion to public showings of spontaneous, uncontrolled fun has made its way into the lockerrooms of major league baseball. Last fall, victorious Mets players took the traditional clubhouse champagne party out onto the pitchers mound. The rulers of baseball didn't like that and plans already are underway to keep this year's dousing behind closed doors...
Spectacle is one of 12 locations being considered for a plant that would burn or compost sludge from Boston area sewage. The "island" is actually a mound of trash and dirt formed more than 50 years ago by city garbage dumping...
Philadelphia's Kevin Gross was obliged to stand mute after an umpire came out to the mound last week and found sandpaper glued into the pocket of his mitt. Unless Gross was building a dollhouse for his daughter between innings, he was caught. Sounding like a dazed mountain climber, the Phillies' pitcher kept mumbling, "It was just there." His embarrassment was so acute that Gross at first shushed the players' union (as opposed to the carpenters' union) when it came to his defense...
...Abbott, 19, carried the flag and led the U.S. team in the opening ceremonies at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where roller skaters would later go streaming like the Unsers. "I've never run across a feeling on a baseball field quite like that," said Abbott, who then took the mound against Nicaragua. "When you're out there, and the national anthem's playing, and you're holding your hat to your heart, it feels great...