Word: pryor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fence for a stand-up double. Next time up, when Perry tried to jam him with a high inside fastball, Hammerin' Hank hit a 350-ft. drive that sailed over the leftfield wall and caromed back onto the playing field. After retrieving the ball, Third Base Umpire Paul Pryor was presented with a card that read: "I caught Hank Aaron's 600th home run." It was a souvenir worth keeping, for Aaron had just set a career mark surpassed by only two other players-Mays and Babe Ruth...
Often the search for adequate housing is even more difficult. Albert Pryor has been squatting in an abandoned tenement for the last four years, much of the time attending college. He has been on the New York City Housing Authority waiting list all the while, but there is still no opening in sight. One city VA official estimates that in New York City alone there are currently more than 10,000 veterans who are forced to live with family or friends or, like Pryor, to camp illegally in empty buildings because they are unable to find quarters of their...
...gaining as much as two pounds a year and thriving in salt water. By cultivating the supertrout, as well as oysters and algae, Washington State's impoverished Lummi Indians are establishing one of the more promising U.S. aquafarms. The Oceanic Institute's founder, Taylor A. Pryor, whose researchers advise the Lummis, thinks similarly lucrative aquafarms can be set up all along the tidal areas of the U.S. Northwest, British Columbia and southern Alaska...
...good deal more could have been done in the way of such niceties as plot and character, but the atmosphere can hardly be faulted. That is not surprising, considering that Robert Stone Pryor is a pseudonym for Cecilia Holland, at 26 the well-known author of four well-wrought and successful works of romantic historical fiction: The Firedrake, 1966; Rakóssy, 1967; The Kings in Winter, 1968; Until the Sun Fails, 1969; and most recently Antichrist, released this spring at almost the same time as Cold Iron. A former graduate student in medieval history at Columbia and a onetime...
...Roman Empire in Latin. "Call it wish fulfillment" she insists, talking of Cold Iron, "call it fantasy, but don't call it autobiography." The book took a year and a half to write and required 15 new versions. "Writing about history is easier," explains Robert Stone Pryor. "You know what the results are. All you have to do is think back...