Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This leads us to a sobering subject of some controversy in baseball circles, particularly this year in this city racism. No one's going to argue that Puerto Rican pitcher Diego Segan is getting a raw deal in favor of white players, but some observers do feel that Jim Rice, say, the team's other rookie whose performance is only a shade less amazing that Lynn's might not be getting the recognition he deserves. Do the Boston Red Sox have a systematic policy of racism. It's fruitless to argue specifies did black so and so get traded...
...rate, Jim Rice has been the Lou Gehrig of the Red Sox this season, an over-shadowed second fiddle to Lynn's Babe Ruth. Winner of the minor league Triple Crown last year with Pawtucket he was expected to be the real star, and in a Lynnless summer he would have been. As it stands, he's hitting almost ...300, and is third in the league in RBIs. Beginning the season as a designated hitter, he's recently moved to left field and has been fielding well...
...South has also surpassed the North in virtually every other aspect of life, especially the economy. South Korea has sustained one of the highest annual growth rates in the world-10%-since 1964. That is a long way from the days just after the Korean War, when the primitive rice-growing economy was shattered and the population on the verge of starvation...
...then everything will be all right again," he added firmly--he always took a hopeful view of things. Later in the year he took out a classified ad, under the heading "Sugar Daddies", and inquired whether anyone rice wanted to support him after he graduated. No one ever responded, so he went off to San Francisco instead. Dispite this discouragement. I think he still ligured his memories of Harvard would come right...
...Sylvia Rice Johnson, a free lance writer who worked on the Radcliffe News for a while, remembers that most of her classmates weren't really very involved in activities outside their studies. "But there really wasn't that much else besides academics. People didn't want to get involved in causes, but there weren't any causes around anyway...