Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which he did, inducing, after a sacrifice bunt had moved Songin into scoring position with just one out, Kevin MacDonald to pop to short, and striking out Brian McCann to save the game for Clifford and the Crimson...
Starting the Clock. New York City has a more urgent motive for quitting: the need to balance its books after its close brush with bankruptcy. Columbia University Professor Raymond Morton, staff director of a commission on city finances, concluded that New York could save as much as $183 million a year by leaving the Social Security system for two years and setting up its own program to provide death and disability benefits. But a temporary pullout would require permission from Congress, so Beame decided to "start the clock running" on the two-year notice period for a permanent defection...
...companionship brings out the worst in him. When Friday (Richard Roundtree) and some cannibal friends wash ashore on "his" island, Crusoe dispatches them one by one. Soon only Friday is left, and Crusoe is about to slay him when the black man instinctively adopts the one pose that will save him from the white man's wrath: he becomes abject. He pretends to have been the prisoner of his traveling companions. Crusoe, mollified, saves Friday for servitude...
...Stephen Spender's verse translation depicts both monarchs as victims of historical circumstance. If Elizabeth's decree obliges Mary to mount the scaffold, the Stuart queen has at least the consolation of dying surrounded by admirers and absolved from sin. Elizabeth, on the other hand, in her zeal to save appearances is finally condemned by them, retaining her crown only at the cost of losing the friendship and popular support that gave it meaning...
...Crimson icemen pressed to get back in the game, Morse goalic Rick Smith rose to the occasion. With ten minutes left, he took a slap shot in the face and was visibly dazed, but seconds later still came up with a leg save to blunt a Kirkland threat...