Word: ruth
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...South Bronx, but to members of Red Sox Nation, as fans of Boston's baseball team are known, they burned with particular intensity, scarlet letters on their sporting souls, because the words reminded them that the Red Sox hadn't tasted a World Series championship since Babe Ruth was the team's star player. For generations of New Englanders, it had been axiomatic: When the leaves fall, so do the Red Sox. Yet for 86 years, fans were bonded by this epic failure. It nurtured in them an almost messianic belief that somedaythis year, surely their time would come. Wherever...
Meanwhile, Ruth R. Wisse, the Peretz professor of Yiddish literature, lambasted Arafat for his ties to terrorism yesterday...
...Randera-Rees ’05, a tall South African with a killer hookshot, takes down challenger after challenger in quick succession. There isn’t any arrogance in his eyes, though, just the confidence of one who knows he sits at the top of his game. Babe Ruth had Yankee Stadium, George Best had Old Trafford, and Yusuf has Quincy...
...division boats sailed in Tech dinghies, with Johnson skippering and junior Ruth Schlitz crewing for the Crimson. The duo began by placing ninth or higher in their first four races, but picked up better position as the regatta unfolded, winning the last two races to place sixth...
...Bucky (Freakin') Dent in a one-game playoff in 1978; an 11th-inning blast by Aaron (Flippin') Boone in last year's seven-game playoff heartbreaker. Why, there might even be a curse--of the Bambino, perhaps. For it was the 1920 trade of Sox star Babe Ruth to New York that sent the Yanks on their way to 26 championships while the Ruthless Red Sox went ringless and the fans nursed their creepy karma like a drunk with his last beer...