Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good thing for the Baseball Writers' Association that its members decided last year to bestow two Cy Young awards, one for each league. Otherwise, how could they have selected the outstanding pitcher of 1968? In the American League, there was Denny McLain, 24, the Peck's Bad Boy (TIME cover, Sept. 13) who posted an astounding 31-6 record to lead the Detroit Tigers to their first pennant in 23 years. In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 33, boasted equally stunning statistics: a 22-9 record that included a phenomenal 13 shutouts...
...timing of the research cutbacks especially irks graduate schools. The cuts came after universities had already signed contracts with professors and graduate researchers for the current school year. "You just can't tell a man to come to the university and then cut him off," protests Raymond E. Peck, a vice president of the University of Missouri. With commitments already made, the schools claim that they will have to dip into their own operating funds or endowments to keep many of the NSF projects going. The Berkeley mathematics department termed the NSF reductions "outrageous and inequitable," and issued...
...Eastern European city boy who is set adrift in the countryside during World War II and physically and emotionally brutalized by peasants. The painfully symbolic title refers to one rustic's practice of daubing a captured bird with bright colors, releasing it, and then watching an incensed flock peck it to death...
...script's demand for a passionate kissing scene, for example, brought on only a fit of bashful giggles followed by a friendly peck. The actors claimed that Japanese are more inhibited in this department than Americans, but Clurman demonstrated with binoculars that this was not really so; a glance through the glasses at lovers in a Tokyo park convinced the cast that their stage kisses had been too tame. The uniformly black-haired actors wanted to wear wigs of different colors to make them look more like Americans, but Clurman vetoed the wiggy look. Only Noboru Na-kaya...
...President that thieves have made off with $1 billion in gold bullion. And there's old L.B.J. listening to the bad news. Old who? Well, it's not quite the boss himself, folks. It's his cousin. To play the President, Central Casting tapped J. B. Peck, 66, retired sheriff of Garland, Texas, and L.B.J.'s somewhat look-alike first cousin. It's just a flash of his pan, and J.B. got a kick out of it all. But then, considering the relatively short-term market for his kind of role, he headed back...