Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game left no room for controversy. Redman righty Steve Bingham kept the Crimson at bay by firing a three-hitter to key St. John's 8-0 triumph. The Harvard batsmen, for their part, blew open a close 2-0 game by booting the ball around and giving up six runs--five unearned--in the seventh and eight innings...
...John's smoked favored Temple, 15-6, in the final game of the NCAA Northeast Regional baseball playoff Sunday to win the six-team tournament and gain a berth in the College World Series in Omaha. Harvard had been eliminated from the double-elimination tourney after losses to Delaware, last Wednesday, and St. John's, Thursday...
...that point, any runs on Harvard's part would have been almost meaningless. Sloppy fielding by the Crimson yielded six runs to St. John's in the sixth and seventh...
...until his fellow visitors began to notice a want of sympathy and substance. Back in 1942, Critic Alfred Kazin observed that Mencken's "conception of the aesthetic life . . . was monstrous in its frivolity and ignorance." Others soon echoed the critique. Finally, even the subject obliquely acknowledged it. In Six Men, Alistair Cooke recalls a 1955 visit. The invalided Mencken wondered when Poet Edgar Lee Masters had passed on. In 1948, Cooke guessed. "That's right," said Mencken. "I believe he died the year...
...outlawed the apostrophe. In Alabama, legislators reached the session's final day without action on a single major bill-but not without having played, once again, their recurring conflict with the capital city government over parking space for their cars. Idaho lawmakers, for their part, indulged in a six-week-long brouhaha over whether to ban the use of radar by highway police; the senate passed a bill prohibiting it on the ground that radar endangers heart patients with pacemakers, and the house set aside the bill only after the sponsor admitted that there was absolutely no hard evidence...