Word: polks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sixty miles away from Tampa, the Red Sox practiced in Winter Haven, home of Polk Community College. The Red Sox prepared for a exhibition game with the Montreal Expos by warming up their arms in front of the stands on the first base side. Fans constantly yelled requests to the players. "Hey Yaz, look over here," one Instamatic-toting woman yelled. Carl Yastrzemski obliged by looking into the stands for a second and then resuming his warmpup. "Hey Pudgie, I came all the way down to see you," a Bosox partisan screamed to Carlton Fisk. Fisk trotted by and said...
...self-styled presidential impersonator does impressions of Van Buren, Madison and Polk without ever changing his voice. On a program featuring hard-luck stories, a contestant with a pain fully stooped back is awarded a free trip to the top of the Statue of Liberty...
...Fort Polk, La., a specialist fourth class is charged with soliciting $68 to pay for nonexistent company festivities. Investigations are also under way at Fort Dix, N.J., and Fort Ord, Calif. On all the bases, the Army has shown no interest in disciplining the recruits who paid off. They have been left alone, says an Army spokesman, because their "subservient nature" during training makes them easy prey for shakedowns...
...York Times Correspondent Sidney Schanberg, 41, who filed thousands of words on the last hours of the Long Boret government before Times editors lost contact with him late in the week. Schanberg, who won a Polk Award in 1972 for his compelling reports on the India-Pakistan war, dominated the paper's front page daily. "Sidney has been covering the story for the past five years," said Foreign Editor James Greenfield. "He felt that it was important for the coverage to be continued, and that he should...
...honors have been commensurate. For the My Lai exposures, Hersh earned the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Memorial, the Sigma Delta Chi and the Worth Bingham awards. He also collected another Polk, a Front Page and a Scripps-Howard Award for his disclosure of the U.S. bombing of Cambodia...