Word: satchell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spending their time looking around at whom they might take over or who may try to take them over. In a less frenetic period, RCA might not have been so eager to find a merger partner. The motto of these executives could be borrowed from the legendary baseball pitcher Satchel Paige: "Don't look back. Something might be gaining...
...helicopter cabin, Lieut. Frank Powell, chief of Philadelphia's bomb- disposal unit, hefted a canvas satchel holding two 1-lb. tubes filled with a water-based gel explosive. After lighting its 45-sec. fuse, Powell leaned out of the helicopter bay and dropped the device on the roof. His target: a fortified, bunker-like cubicle about 6 ft. square and 8 ft. high...
Goode was watching the siege on television in his city hall office when the helicopter swooped over the Move house and dropped the explosive satchel. Two floors above Goode, Councilman Lucien Blackwell also saw television footage of the bomb. Recounts Blackwell: "We watched as it dropped. We watched and watched, and the flames were getting larger and larger." Alarmed at seeing no effort to extinguish the fire, Blackwell called the mayor, who told him firemen were being held off out of fear they would be shot at by Move members. Fire Commissioner William Richmond at first accepted responsibility for holding...
...California, with its enticing of 306 delegates, but early exit polls indicated a tight race. Arriving at a party in St. Paul's Radisson Plaza Mondale reached out to his rivals and their backers. "I want your support," he said, "and I intend to earn it." After delivering a Satchel Paige warning to Ronald Reagan, "Don't look back, somebody's gaining on you," the contented Mondale ordered a batch of cheeseburgers, celebrated with friends in his 17th-floor suite and drifted off into a long-awaited deep sleep at midnight...
DIED. Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, 75 or perhaps more, ageless, flamboyant fastball pitcher who became a legend during two decades in the old Negro leagues, even before breaking into the majors as a rookie of 42-the first black pitcher in the American League; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo. "Do you throw that hard consistently?" asked his first manager. "No, sir," said Satchel, "I do it all the time." Paige (his nickname came from carrying satchels at a railroad depot as a child) estimated that he pitched 2,500 games in the black leagues, won 2,000, including...