Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having tried some other way of life. The quality of the seminaries them selves was also inadequate. The report found that students are overloaded with a bewildering patchwork of courses, and develop little sense of community with fellow seminarians. Most find chapel so boring and irrelevant that they frequently skip services...
...Stanky, "is 90% public relations and 10% managing. My responsibility is to entertain the gentlemen of the press, radio and television, make up the line-up card, then fall asleep on the bench and let the boys play. After a while, some player wakes me up and says, 'Skip, we just won the game 5-4.' " There may once have been a manager who ran his team that way-the description somehow sounds familiar-but it certainly was not Eddie Stanky...
...team is particularly strong in jumping. Galliers, Skip Hare, and John Avault swept nearly every meet in both the long and triple jumps. Jim Coleman (6 ft. 3 in.) and Bill McBride (6 ft.) were consistent point getters in the high jump, and between them won in all but one meet. Paul Frankel scored well in the pole vault...
Lincoln walked Springfield's Jim Watson and Skip Clayton. Then Charlie Lelas stumbled away from an inside pitch and poked it over third base to drive in Springfield's fifth and winning...
...must be for procreation, when Pope Pius XI approved the rhythm method. The Vatican has banned all mechanical and chemical contraception. But Dr. Rock, an unswerving Catholic, has been arguing ever since he sired the pill that its use imitates nature-which occasionally, but only occasionally, makes a woman skip ovulation-and that it should therefore be approved by the Vatican...