Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remembered my father pitching wiffle balls to his clearly not athletically-talented son in our backyard. I remembered family trips to the ball park, especially sitting two rows back behind home plate one very hot day in late August. I remembered the one professional hockey game that I have attended in my life, to which my father--the quintessential hockey hater--happily took...
This year's Opening Day game broadened my thinking about sports even more because I realized that I was uncertain why I had returned to Fenway Park. I paged through the complimentary program (the owners still don't get it, do they?) and recognized maybe half of the names on the Red Sox roster and virtually none on the Twins. Then I remembered that I could have easily named the starting line-ups of the entire American League not too many years...
...hard fan that I once was, why do I keep coming back to Fenway Park in early (or, in this year's case, late) April? The answer, which developed slowly during the game, parallels my earlier response--shared memory...
Meanwhile, federal investigators are now focusing their attention on Kingman, Arizona, where McVeigh lived in a trailer park for five months last year with a pregnant girlfriend. During that period, officials say, a small bomb exploded in a residential area, damaging the windows of some houses but causing no injuries. Government agents are examining soil samples and fragments from the area for clues that may link the Arizona explosion to McVeigh. According to the New York Times, authorities were alerted to the Arizona connection when they tracked the paperwork on his 9-mm Glock handgun. McVeigh had filed a complaint...
Raymond F. Dumalski Park Ridge, Illinois...