Word: occasionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Water pressure dropped ominously as sweltering city dwellers illegally opened fire hydrants to wet themselves down. Utility companies set power-output records in Milwaukee, Boston, New York and other cities, and air-conditioner salesmen could scarcely keep up with demand. Newspaper-headline writers warmed to the occasion. The New York...
What a pleasure it was to see the two of them again in a great baseball park, clad in the classic threads of the trade that made them famous. The occasion was the 48th All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, and this time Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio were not...
Unlike his near namesake of the old-time radio serial, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, the self-styled "Tracer of Missing Pets" is not infallible. He is hampered by police indifference, even when he can identify a petnaper. (On occasion, Keane says, he has come close to having his...
There are several ways in which a novel based on such a premise could run rapidly downhill. It could sour into morbidity or fist-shaking stridency or traipse into a misty, philosophical meadow, where every delicious moment is the first one of the rest of our lives. This tightly constructed...
Carew does not strike out very often (52 whiffs last year). Nor are his many hits limited to a third of the playing field as is the case with most pulling power hitters. A lefthanded hitter (who throws rightie), he sprays the field like a grounds keeper's sprinkler...