Word: rutland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what Weller did best was wait, wait and wait some more...for his pitch. The leadoff batter knew his job was to get on base, and he did. Last year the Rutland, Mass. native set the school's single season walks record (47 in just 36 games). This year he drew 39 free passes while batting 372. More than half the times number eight stepped up to the plate this year, he became a baserunner...
...time, Stutman regarded his letter as a routine move, but some Vermonters thought otherwise. Said White River Junction Realtor Chas Baker: "Just about anybody who walks through my doors fits at least one of the profile's criteria." An editorial in the Rutland, Vt, Herald sharply criticized the DEA request, using the headline REALTORS AS NARCS. Some residents even complained to the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, whose executive director, Scott Skinner, found that the DEA profile "smacks of Big Brotherism...
...them over to the lawn that faces the bandstand. Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray sky. Warmup musicians, two men and a woman of a group called Bluebird, plug in their guitars. Here in Rutland, the Grand Old-Time Fiddlin' Contest is gathering momentum...
...swarmed over the town common on the day of the contest, stayed all night and broke up outhouses to burn in campfires. An abundant young woman wearing bib overalls and nothing else, as some accounts have it, got up on the bandstand at Craftsbury and danced. The opinion in Rutland is that she was a hippie. The voters of Craftsbury decided to cancel the affair next year, though it could be brought back by petition...
...Rutland contest is the descendant of a smaller and less volcanic gathering held each summer for eight years in Newfane, Vt., until it outgrew the five-acre tract owned by the father of Promoter Bill Morse. Morse, 29, a quick-talking flea market proprietor who wears a Stetson, a fine clawhammer coat and jeans, says he moved his contest to the state fairgrounds here when neighbors began muttering about the mobs. Now he was wondering whether crowds and contestants would show up in sufficient numbers on this stern October Saturday, when ski trails visible on Killington Mountain a few miles...