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...routine player-manager conflict. Then again, Lee is not a routine ballplayer. "It's a shame he's not out there pitching for us," Carlton Fisk said. Fisk first caught Lee when they both started for Boston's Bristol, Conn., farm club. "He was always a great competitor on the mound," Fisk said. "He was always intense during a game. And he was rebellious. Bill just wouldn't accept authority. He never liked people telling him how to live or what to think...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: HEROES and FOOLS | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...will get arguments on the last two points--if from no one else, certainly from Joe Restic and the Harvard coaching staff--but you will get no arguments on the first two points. And you will get no arguments if you say it's a goddamned shame Wayne Moore broke his ankle last week, and that his place in the Harvard scrapbook will be limited to three brief, glorious moments last fall and this...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Say It Ain't So, P. Wayne | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

...shame anyone had to lose," smoke-thrower Gossage said in the clubhouse afterward. "Getting the final two outs was a feeling you just can't put into words. It was the greatest feeling in my whole life...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Yanks Nip Sox for Title, 5-4 | 10/3/1978 | See Source »

...looked like a morality play, not a criminal trial. The sobbing 22-year-old defendant resembled Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, who, as Defense Attorney Flora Stuart reminded the jury, "had to wear the letter A and bear the shame and humiliation." This trial, however, took place last week in Bowling Green, Ky., and the A stood not for adultery but for abortion. Under an obscure state statute that allows only licensed physicians to perform abortions after the first trimester, Maria Pitchford was prosecuted for performing an abortion on herself during the 24th week of pregnancy. The penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Scarlet A | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...Ronald Chapman, head of the Elim Pentecostal Mission, where the massacre took place, prayed for mercy for "those who perpetrated this act of shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Savagery and Terror | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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