Word: parked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monterey Park, Calif...
...Florida's southeast coast. Governor Robert Graham ordered the evacuation of low-lying areas, and as many as 300,000 people headed for higher ground, including 15,000 from the Keys alone. Public buses carried senior citizens from Miami Beach to stormproof shelters, while animals at Crandon Park Zoo in Key Biscayne were trucked to safety. There were sudden shortages of candles and flashlights and other household items as thousands of Floridians jammed their local stores. At Saunders Hardware Store in Miami, there were fights in the aisles when hundreds crowded in to grab batteries, tape and Sterno...
...Gripped with the fingertips and, unlike every other pitch, thrown with a completely stiff wrist, the ball should not spin. A revolving ball slices through the air; a spinless knuckleball floats free in the breeze, its trajectory altered by every passing zephyr. A gale wind in Candlestick Park or, it would seem at times, a cough from a fan in the front row of the Astrodome can change its course, making it the hardest pitch to hit. Says Cincinnati Reds Second Baseman Joe Morgan: "The knuckleball messes up your timing so bad it can put you in a slump...
With the Astros, Joe Niekro performs a superstitious pitching-day ritual that is bizarre even by baseball standards. Decked out in the same Levi's and black-and-white shirt, he stops on his way to the park for a cup of coffee with a friend. He insists on draping a towel around the neck of Pitching Coach Mel Wright. And then, when his team is at bat, he sits on the same towel on the same spot in the dugout...
...Varsity Cross Country Ivy Championships at Philadelphia, PA 4:00 p.m. SAT. NOV. 10 M VARSITY ICE HOCKEY U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM 7:30 P.M. M VARSITY SOCCER PENNSYLVANIA 11:00 A.M. M VARSITY FOOTBALL PENNSLVANIA 1:30 P.M. M Varsity Cross Country NCAA Division I Qualifying Meet at Franklin Park 11:00 a.m. W Varsity Soccer EAIAW Tournament at Providence, R.I. SUN. NOV. 11 W Varsity Soccer EAIAW Tournament at Providence, R.I. FRI. NOV. 16 W Varsity Soccer at Yale 1:30 p.m. M Varsity Soccer at Yale 1:30 p.m. M JV Soccer at Yale...