Word: rico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fans began roaring early as Lolich, 22-14, struck out Reggie Smith and Rico Petrocelli with two runners on base in the first inning. In the bottom of the inning. Al Kaline homered off rookie John Curtis. 11-8, his 10th of the season and third in three days...
Griffin's two-out single in the second inning brought home Rico Petrocelli, who had singled and moved to second on Carlton Fisk's single to give the Sox a quick 1-0 lead...
...banks must buy blood, sometimes from alcoholics and drug addicts desperate for a bottle or a fix. To satisfy the growing demand for plasma, a blood component used in emergency treatment, research and vaccine production, some companies have even gone abroad. Several American firms are buying plasma in Puerto Rico and South America and, according to unconfirmed reports, underdeveloped West African nations. One American-owned firm, Hemo Caribbean, buys blood for plasma from Haitian peasants who are so poor that they must sell the stuff of life in order to survive...
Pidgin. That theory receives its first book-length substantiation with the publication of Black English (Random House, $10). In it, Linguist J.L. Dillard of the University of Puerto Rico describes how slaves were forced to develop their own lingua franca because traders usually separated groups speaking the same language in order to hinder communication and thereby prevent revolts. The slaves taught each other pidgin varieties of their masters' language...
...textile importer, Kimelman got into the liquor business through his father-in-law, who owned a rum distillery in Puerto Rico. Kimelman moved to St. Thomas after investing in the islands' earliest first-class resort hotel, the Virgin Isle, which he later leased on hugely favorable terms to Hilton. Kimelman and his brother-in-law acquired the distributorships of a number of name-brand liquors, including Cherry Heering, Grand Marnier and J & B Scotch. When the Johnson Administration tried to ease the nation's balance of payments deficit by chopping, from a gallon to a quart, the nontaxable...