Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first year is any sign of things to come, we're in store for one great man, and even a greater country...
...lists are not the only sign of collusion between DINA and sympathizers outside the country. Last month two mangled, bullet-ridden bodies were found in a burnt-out car in the Argentine town of Pilar, some 25 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Miraculously un-charred, however, were documents that enabled the Argentine police to identify the corpses as those of two Chilean students-Jaime Robotham Bravo, 24, and Luis Guendelman Wisniak, 26, neither of them very active politically. Also conveniently intact was a placard attached to the bodies that said the students had been "executed by the MIR," the Chilean...
...clubhouse, he was greeted by growls from his players: "Christ, Charlie's back again." If Finley heard, he gave no sign; he was too busy handing out samples of his latest innovation for the national pastime?Day-Glo orange baseballs. Pitcher Vida Blue, still seething with the memory of past salary battles, flicked his orange ball into his locker with contempt. Slugger Reggie Jackson asked Finley only half facetiously if his recent hitting streak (eight home runs, 21 RBIS and a .388 average in 17 games) was worth a raise. "You've got to hit consistently," shot back Finley...
...several things going for him: the A's had a small but shrewd scouting crew, and Finley himself soon showed an uncanny instinct for spotting young talent. He was tireless in pursuit of prospects. In 1962 he struck one of baseball's alltime bargains by paying only $500 to sign Shortstop Bert Campaneris, then a catcher for a team in Cuba. Two years later Finley heard about a kid pitcher from Hertford, N.C., who had peppered his foot with shotgun pellets in a hunting accident. Finley descended upon Hertford, stalked the youngster, captured him with a $75,000 bonus...
...inviting working reporters, and she was invited only to those parties she agreed not to write about. "Once," says Quinn, "a well-known hostess remarked that to have a society reporter covering your party was the kiss of death, but to have Sally Quinn there not reporting was a sign of social success...