Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Relief specialist Norm Walsh preserved the Crimson victory by pitching his way out of a ninth-inning, bases-loaded jam after giving up two runs...
Fran Cronin, running for designated hitter Joe Mackey, who had received his fourth walk of the ballgame, scored the winning run from third on a wild pitch in the top of the ninth, sliding under Bruin relief pitcher Don Cawley's lunging tag. Dave St. Pierre scored the ninth run on Ed Durso's sacrifice...
After that, although Percy became a First World War Hero and a civic leader in Greenville, it was pretty much all downhill. As local chairman of the relief committee during the 1927 Mississippi River flood, he came under sharp attack from Northern black newspapers because, among other things, he forced Greenville's blacks to live on the levee and unload relief boats instead of letting them go back to their homes. Later, Percy got more criticism from Northern liberals for having the work on his plantation done by black sharecroppers...
...into human character. Although somewhat limited by his background, as his continued references to "niggers" indicate, he had a solid progressive outlook on politics and on society. After learning in the past year of the way the executive branch has operated under President Nixon since 1969, it is a relief to read these interviews with Harry Truman--a down-to-earth man who did not get carried away by the grandeur and power of his office...
Jimmy Thomas and Stoeckel put the Crimson back on top in the sixth with a pair of RBI singles at the expense of B.C. ace Bill Ruane, on in relief for Gormley. LaCivita had an RBI base hit bunt in the seventh off new pitcher and previous designated hitter, Don McDonough to make...