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Word: reached (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pirates added 2 more tallies in the 6th as Doug DeCinces committed 2 costly errors. His first boot allowed Steve Nicosia to reach first and load the bases with two out. Garner then shot an inside fastball to left for 2 runs. DeCinces fumbled Lee Lacy's pinch-hit grounder to reload the bases, but Moreno flied to center to end the threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birds Survive Late Rally; Take Series Opener, 5-4 | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...wait until morning, which comes soon enough: 4:30 a.m. You move out en masse along a forest trail lit only by the lights of an occasional T.V. crew and the high intensity bulbs that circle the plant. The sun comes up over the tidal marsh just as you reach it, a moment much too glorious. People joke about it, and the allusions to solar energy come one after another...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Weekend at Seabrook | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

...time through the woods and across a road. It's chaos and no one knows who is going where, and so everyone goes the wrong place, down a suicide alley where the police wait with two cans of Mace apiece. A little fence is cut, a few people even reach the other side, and pretty soon you're retreating backwards, trying to doctor Mace victims and to keep singing and hold hands and walk-not-run, and the police are right behind you. They have their sticks out and they're using them, and they don't care that...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Weekend at Seabrook | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

...each other, singing. "Kumbayah," and "This Land is Your Land," and if there ever was a clearer picture of whistling in the dark you haven't seen it, but it helps. Too soon, the cops are coming again, but you don't get up, you just sit there. They reach the edge of the circle, and hesitate a moment, and the singing goes on and they move in. One of you gets picked up by a pigtail and tossed. Another, who goes limp, is clubbed until his hand is fractured and he is rolled down the hill. The glasses...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Weekend at Seabrook | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

...sees a roller-coaster recession: the economy, after its slight rise, will plunge steeply during the coming winter and spring. Unemployment, which has hovered at about 5.7% for the past year, inched up to 6.0% in August, and a majority of TIME'S board predict that it will reach 8% by next summer, meaning some 8 million Americans will be out of work. That is severe, of course, but not as bad as during the 1974-75 recession, when the jobless rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Recession: Deeper and Longer | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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