Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Name the player whose 1969 baseball card had a picture of the California Angels' batboy instead of himself...
...advent of the nineteenth century the intrepid explorer William Clark decided to found the town nestled in the western tip of Kentucky where the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers mingle their waters. Clark named the new settlement Paducah in honor of his friend Chief Paduke, the renowned chief of the Chickesaw Indians. He then embarked on what proved to be a transcontinental trip with another friend by the name of Lewis...
That is as far as my Zionism goes; beyond that, holy ancestral tombs mean very little to me. And yet it would be stupid to say that the name of the game is survival or security: the name of the game is universal redemption. For as long as I live, I shall be thrilled by all those who came to the Promised Land to turn it either into a pastoral paradise of egalitarian Tolstoyan communes, or into a well-educated, middle-class Central European enclave, a replica of Austria and Bavaria...
...ready for two Travoltas? As Saturday Night Fever continues to turn on the fans, John's elder brother Joey, 27, has decided to cash in on the family name. "Things are hot for me now," says Joey, who once taught emotionally disturbed children in Englewood, N.J. With $5,000 from John, 24, Joey headed for Hollywood, where he turned down a part in a TV pilot because the role was too much like his brother's in Welcome Back, Kotter. But he managed to sign a movie contract. Joey has also cut his first single. The title...
...week's end the new regime was already operating-"in the name of Allah," as its communiques put it-out of temporary headquarters in the government radio station. Afghanistan's customary seat of power, the sprawling Royal Palace compound in the heart of Kabul, was unusable. During the coup, the elegant mansions that had been occupied by Daoud and his advisers since they themselves seized power in 1973 were battered by a ring of rebel tanks supported by rocketing planes. Daoud, his aides, their wives and children, and many members of the 2,000-man palace guard were...