Word: sarasota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy's volunteer supporters. Though the victory was only psychological in significance, Carter's supporters went ahead by nearly 2 to 1 over the Kennedy slate. Carter even took the Miami area, 131 to 57. Yet Kennedy had shown spotty strength: he beat Carter in Tampa, Orlando, Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale...
Drafted in the 14th round by the Houston Astros, Brown took a few weeks off after graduation, then made the almost cliched baseball pilgrimmage to south Florida and a shot at the bigs. The Astros assigned him to their Sarasota single A team, (the minor leagues are arranged in three levels, with A the lowest and AAA the highest, just below the majors) where Brown had to join the club without benefit of a major league spring training camp...
...sterling apprenticeship at that. Brown said, "the statistics were the best part," and indeed the numbers reveal a most promising debut. In the Astros' (Sarasota, that is) 52-game season, he made 21 appearances, won three, lost three, saved nine games and came away with a tidy 1.92 earned run average...
After his father's death, Wolff said he felt compelled to write Duke of Deception, because it "was the only way I know how to deal with being left behind by my father." Duke left behind his son both literally--deserting the family in the mobile home mecca of Sarasota, Florida, for a financially-draining fling on Vancouver Island--and emotionally--substituting "glittering things" for fatherly affection. Continuing the precedent set by Geoffrey's grandfather, Duke discovered "love's shortcut through stuff," lavishing filched motorboats and sportscars on his child...
...surprisingly, he sympathizes less when his mother errs. Though her offenses were less reprehensible, Wolff bears down on them harshly. When ten-year-old Geoffrey discovers his mother in bed with a grimy ex-Sarasota policeman, he reaches a verdict instantly--"it was all over"--and he catches the next bus to California to set up house for the next 20-odd years with father...