Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phillies drew two more weapons from their arsenal to swipe the second game, 1-0, behind the sterling relief work of Gene Garber (2.37 ERA) and a tenth-inning single by ex-Dodger Ted Sizemore (.282), who represents the Philly slap-hitting contingent...
While the Sox watched the drops, the Yankees dropped the Sox one-half game in the standings with their 97th win of the season, a 4-2 victory over the Indians in Cleveland. Mike Torrez got his 17th win of the year, with three innings of hitless relief help from Sparky Lyle, in his 69th appearance of the year...
...Ullo's bond was cut to $250,000, but he was told that if he managed to post the sum he would have to report to a U.S. marshal twice a day, every day. At week's end Ullo was still behind bars. That was surely a relief to Witnesses Connor, Zander and Petzold. All are in protective custody after alleged death threats by Ullo. They have more reason than most to remember that two victims of the .22-cal. hitters were FBI informants-and four others were potential prosecution witnesses...
...means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design. Made of a high-strength organic fiber, it features a flattened top and "skirts" that come down over the ears and nape of the neck; it looks unnervingly like the German model...
Cruel but rich in comic relief, Chicago follows the murder trial of Roxie Hart, a "foxy lady" who has one of her many affairs with a furniture salesman, shoots him in a rage and then talks her compliant husband into confessing to the murder. He blows her cover, however, and Roxie finds herself in the friendly confines of the Cook County Jail where the lady inmates, fresh from the opening and most impressive number entitled "All That Jazz", dance cell-door-in-hand to the beat of "Cell Block Tango...