Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started playing .500 ball, and have not been far out of first place since the season began. With a young team, it was easy for a winning attitude to develop, and Williams did not have to work any psychological miracles. When Boston went on a road trip and came back home with a 10-game winning streak, this winning attitude turned into a virtual mania...
...teams were taking warmups, and one looked for hints. But one wasn't sure what to make of the Twins. In their road uniforms they seemed grim. Kaat, the starting pitcher, was monolithic, utilitarian and unimaginative. He made only the briefest attempt at a windup as he loosened up. Allison was big and stupid (his stupidity proved crucial), and Killebrew--the Killer--infused his pudginess with evil...
...airport limousine got the same treatment and so did one of the motorized carriages that runs around the Common. Then, finally, the cops showed up. They conspicuously stayed away from the grass where people were still clustered around smoking. All they did was clear Beacon St. and the little road inside the Common fence. Last Sunday there was none of this kind of trouble, although one group of about 100 marched on the Western Ave. Jail near Central Sq., where the 18 who had been busted earlier that day were reportedly residing...
...clerics have become involved. "There have been innumerable unofficial movements within the church before," he says, "but they came and went rapidly because they lacked the unifying factor of a priesthood and a liturgy of their own." He suggests that the underground cell might well become an attractive middle road between unacceptable institutionalized traditionalism and abandonment of the faith...
Died. Robert E. Woodruff, 83, boss of the Erie Railroad (now Erie-Lack-awanna) from 1939 to 1956; of cancer; in Delray Beach, Fla. "The scarlet woman of Wall Street" was the name for the four-times bankrupt Erie in 1939 when Woodruff, then one of the road's few able executives, took over as a court-appointed trustee. He needed only two years to get the company out of receivership; a year later, as president, he was able to announce a $1 common-stock dividend-first for the hapless Erie in 69 years...