Word: racks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Dodgers; in Los Angeles. Traded to the New York Mets by the Milwaukee Braves after a dismal 1964 season in which he won only six games, the winningest pitcher in baseball today struck out two men in the ninth inning to cut off a Dodger rally, rack up the 357th victory of his major-league career...
...stands and stormed the court as the weary Celtics tottered to the locker room. A souvenir hunter ripped a sneaker right off Bill Russell's foot. Of course, it was not over yet: the Celtics still had to get past the Los Angeles Lakers to rack up their seventh straight N.B.A. title. "Oh, they'll win," shrugged Chamberlain. But next year, baby! Maybe...
...tuxedo, and Onofrio Lauri, whose favorite trick is to polish his bald pate with a handkerchief so that it will reflect the table lights into the eyes of his opponents. There, too, was Irving Crane, who in one year at Hobart College learned mostly how to run a rack so fast that his friends call him "Machine Gun." Luther ("Wimpy") Lassiter was on hand, cheerfully admitting that he has not done an honest day's work since he earned "810 an hour" delivering groceries at 15. Once Lassiter spotted a "mark" 40 points in a 100-point match...
...superintendent, Bernard Tierney, was unavailable after the incident, but sources in Leverett House said that he had decided to check the bike rack because of a recent series of thefts. After discovering the youths at about 8:30 p.m., Tierney unsuccessfully sought reinforcements in the Leverett House pool room...
...hour when a man can first discern the shadows of the veins on the back of his hand, the monks arise. The great temple drum, hanging from its roughhewn log rack, summons the faithful to alms. Twisting a single saffron shift round their bodies, the monks move out into the quiet streets in single file, eyes to the ground, fingers clasped beneath their silver begging bowls. In Laos, the bonzes form a silent silhouette against the ornate temple roofs of the royal capital of Luangprabang. In Burma, they enter Rangoon framed against the great Shwe Dagon pagoda, its massive gilded...