Word: season
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sauntering to the mailbox in search of invitations to oldtimers' games, but he managed to beat out another grounder. It was the 2,947th hit in a major league career that stretches back to 1961. If he stays healthy, Brock will surely get his 3,000th hit this season. That accomplishment would guarantee him a place in baseball's Hall of Fame -if he had not already earned his spot another way: by stealing 921 bases, breaking Ty Cobb's career record...
...Airlines flying the DC-10 are losing $5 million a day because of its decertification and grounding right at the start of the peak summer travel season. If the suspension goes on long enough, many may sue McDonnell Douglas, but, again, insurance would probably cover most of the bill...
...marvelous race by the inexperienced colt and his veteran jockey, Ruben Hernandez. Coastal had raced but three times this year after an eye injury late in his two-year-old season forced a long layoff. He was fresh and ready to run the Belmont distance, and run he did. Hernandez held him off the lead through the first mile of the race, rating him gently behind the leaders, well outside of traffic. Meanwhile, Spectacular Bid's jockey, Ron Franklin, pushed his colt to the front as the horses moved out of the clubhouse turn and into the long backstretch...
Dairy Farmer Clair Hoover, whose pastures are barely five miles from the nuke, has reported 19 dead cows in the past six weeks. Although a simple infection may be responsible, as it often is during calving season, Hoover admits: "I can't help but have my thoughts." William Peffer of nearby Newberrytown, who had evacuated his family to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., says that his wife still wakes in a cold sweat at night...
Apart from Sweeney Todd, this Broadway season has been a musical bone yard Uttered with seemingly logical decisions. It must have seemed logical to cast Liv Ullmann as the indomitable mother of a struggling Norwegian immigrant brood. Unfortunately, the only thing she gets right is her accent. Ullmann is no singer, and she croaks out her numbers with nary a trace of that speechifying grace that Rex Harrison brought to My Fair Lady. With her disconcertingly low voice and brisk delivery, it sometimes seems as if she is barking out orders, like some displaced storm trooper...