Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eileen Rice...
Boston Outfielder Jim Rice wanted to think it over, but his wife Corine kept telling him "Sign now!" Which is how Rice, 25, became the highest-paid player in Red Sox history. Under the terms of a new contract announced last week, he will get more than $5 million over the next seven years, making him second in earnings in major league history only to Third Baseman Pete Rose, who just signed a four-year, $3.5 million deal with the Philadelphia Phillies. "I probably could have got more," said the American League's MVP for 1978, "but I think...
Back-to-back sweeps in the 60-yd. dash and 880-yd. run then put Harvard in command, 50-13. Honors went to Gopaul in the dash (7.6) and co-captain Sarah Linsley in the half-mile (2:21.9). Kathy Rice outdistanced her competitors in the long jump at 17 ft. 53/4 in. while Harper's 15 ft 8 3/4 in. was good for a third. A second place finish by Chubb in the 220-yd. run and Harvard...
...advanced education, little or no religion, and none of the freedoms accepted or at least professed by most of the rest of the world." One Cambodian admitted to Dudman that he had seen some "travelers" who looked wealthy and that he had recognized a "rich person" working in the rice fields...
...China watchers in Peking say that wall posters there seem to indicate a further liberalization of attitudes toward the West. One poster depicts a cadre of rice growers singing. "You deserve a break today," in an apparent shift from the past party line...