Word: ruth
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They include Harris, Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization Bernard Septimus, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages Peter B. Machinist '66, Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse and Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature James I. Kugel, sources said...
Owners have been pleading poverty since Babe Ruth was hitting home runs for a Baltimore, Maryland, orphanage. The owners wailed that the sky was falling back in 1976, when the Major League Players Association -- then and now the most powerful union in sports -- first won the right for its members to become free agents and sell their services to the highest bidder after six years in the majors. But instead of all the stars flocking to New York City and Los Angeles, the law of unintended consequences prevailed: no World Champion has repeated since the 1977-78 Yankees...
...film's deepest friendship is between Margaret and the frail Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave). In a lovely scene, Ruth summons her ebbing strength to secure a sprig in Margaret's hair. It is also a laurel from Redgrave, the great actress of her generation, to Thompson, the next generation's Most Likely to Succeed...
...just a pitcher. She can hit too. She's sort of the Babe Ruth of softball. One day she'll strike you out. The next, she'll get the key hit to win the game...
...called sexist grounds, for membership on the ruling seven-member Federal Council, parliament approved a woman nonlegislator with the same background (a French-speaking socialist) and roughly similar political views (a reduced role for the military, pro-E.C.). The principal difference between the rejected Christiane Brunner and winner Ruth Dreifuss, says Dreifuss, is that "I reassure people because I look a little plain...