Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major league reocrd for lifetime hits in championship series play belongs to Pete Rose, the player-manager of the Cincinnati Reds...
Thomas Crooks, a former Dudley House Master, proposed toast after toast to the "marvellous bunch of pioneers" who made Dudley what it is today. The guests, among them various deans and masters, rose for the final Happy Birthday toast "to all the members of Dudley-past, present and future...
...joint intervention that brought the dollar down slightly from its all-time peak. But while the Bundesbank put $4 billion into a $10 billion international fund to buy currencies, Washington supplied only $600 million. That left the Germans vulnerable to a big loss when the price of the dollar rose again this summer, lowering the value of the marks that they had bought. Now Bonn wants assurances that the U.S. will do its share to finance the current fund, which is certain to be larger...
...time continued to slip away, the odds against retrieving many more survivors lengthened. That did not stifle the efforts of the rescuers. But as a steady stream of bodies moved toward local cemeteries and damage estimates rose as high as $2 billion to $3 billion, Mexican officials began looking ahead to the next stages of the relief operation, which include relocation and health services for the living and the city's eventual reconstruction. In one sense, Mexico City had been lucky: key industrial sectors of the city were undamaged by the quake, meaning that the impact of the disaster...
...wonder, then, that Macon finds relief in the "bizarre" Muriel Pritcherd and her slightly-sordid transient air. Macon is half-fascinated and half-repulsed by Muriel's comic pretensions of gentility. She shows up at Rose's wedding, the only woman wearing, Macon notices, spiked heels with ankle straps. She isn't even really pretty, her youthfulness appearing more immature than sexy. Upon his first sight of her at the Meow Bow vet clinic, Macon notes the knobby collarbones "promising unluxurious flesh...