Word: porch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Little Rock, Ark., Brooks Robinson used to deliver newspapers to the home of his hero, Yankee Catcher Bill Dickey. One morning, hoping to impress the star with his throwing arm, young Brooks wound up and threw a rolled-up paper at the Dickeys' front porch. The paper landed on the roof. Robinson, now 33, has made few bad plays since. Last week, throwing, fielding and hitting like a man possessed, baseball's premier third baseman led the Baltimore Orioles to a four-games-to-one World Series victory over the Cincinnati Reds with one of the most spectacular...
...Nashville sessions was expert: Steel Guitarist Pete Drake, who not only lined up 13 of the best Nashville sidemen in town, but provided Ringo with a well-varied dozen of the best new songs from his own publishing company (Window Music). One of them, Chuck Howard's porch-swinging serenade, I Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way, has the stamp of a country classic, and Loser's Lounge is a toe-tapper that even city slickers should find a winner...
...Flint and other G.M. centers in Michigan. J. L. Hudson's, the big department store chain, has reduced its staff by 10%. But hardware and lumber stores are doing well supplying the strikers, who now have plenty of time to finish a recreation room or repair a back porch. The strikers have difficulty locating part-time jobs. In Atlanta, several have taken temporary jobs distributing leaflets in shopping centers. One enterprising man sold a cartful of apples outside the local union hall...
...pair were convicted last April for sunbathing naked on the porch of the Commune, which is in a quiet residential part of Cambridge at 197 Lakeview Avenue...
...plywood maquette sat on Smith's back porch for seven years until New York State commissioned the piece in steel for the new capital mall in Albany. The model went off to the fabricators, and not until one evening this summer did Smith see Snake again. On his way home for dinner, he peered in the factory's doorway and saw two huge pieces, one on the floor, the other hanging from a crane, hovering six inches over it. "They fitted together like a watch case," he remembers...