Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been in and out of trouble ever since he got to the majors in 1952, the same year he spent two months in a mental institution, Piersall is still getting into scrapes. He capers on the field, spats with Cleveland sportswriters, makes faces and occasionally spits when the fans ride him. But he has been a model of gentlemanly deportment compared to last year, when he was thumbed from seven games, had the league in an uproar over such antics as heaving an orange and a baseball (both missed) at Bill Veeck's absurd $300,000 Comiskey Park Scoreboard...
...Chosen Targets. Though Tyrex advertising does not neglect the motorist, its prime targets are Detroit's automakers and their dealers. Playing on the auto-men's conviction that nothing is so important in selling a car as a smooth ride, Tyrex made much of the fact that when a car with nylon tires is parked overnight, its tires tend to develop a flat spot at the point of contact with the road and will go back to a perfect circle only after several miles of driving. Christening this condition "nylon thump," the rayon makers hammered away...
...great houses fronting on the Common, their windows shining purple in the sun. Originally colorless, the constant glare of the sun permanently transformed their color over the course of years. In the Public Garden, which faces Beacon St. near the foot of the Hill, you can take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing so much as London's Hyde Park, with its vehement soapbox oratory...
...Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed everyone within spitting distance...
Soft Landing. Last to take the stand was Commander Shepard himself. As coolly and unemotionally as any of the scientists, he told exactly how he spent every moment of his 15-minute rocket ride-how he watched the instruments, maneuvered his craft according to plan, snatched hasty looks through the periscope and the capsule's two portholes. The sky was almost black, he said, but because of the position of the sun, he did not see any stars or planets. When the first parachute opened, he got an 11-G shock, but did not mind it much. Through...