Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thursday Richmond's highly-touted Bill Hash belted a home run off Lee Sargent in the third inning, and gave the Spiders a 1-0 lead, which stood up until the sixth inning. A walk to Skip Falcone, a sacrifice by Miller, and a single by Stephenson tied the score. In the ninth Tobin beat out an infield hit, John Dockery sacrificed him to second, and Liebgott won the game with a single to left...
...second base candidates--Bobby St., George, Jim Tobin, Mike Sikora, and Skip Falcone--promise much of an addition to Harvard's batting power. St. George, the only one who played much last year...
...campus girls to eat the dinner for which they pay. With the proposed choice between lunch and dinner, officials would have to prepare enough food to accommodate the girls at either meal. In addition, Mrs. Bunting suggested that the new flexibility might encourage girls who normally skip dinner in the dorm to eat lunch there instead...
What happened after that has never been very clear, but Ebtehaj found himself clapped into jail for seven months, and only after protests from his friends abroad was he released on a bond. It was some bond: a whopping $140 million signed guarantee that Ebtehaj would not skip Teheran. Most of the collateral was contributed by sympathetic Iranians in the form of land deeds, securities and cash pledges...
Readers who want to enjoy the many fascinating parts of this book are urged to approach the Disenchanted Island selectively. Read the beginnings of chapters, skip when it becomes boring, and read the end. Always read the long series of footnotes Spears has placed at the end of each section: they tell more about Auden than many of the chapters do. They indicate, for example, whom he travelled with, what he read, where he went, and whom he wrote to. The chronologies of Auden's life are equally intriguing: One cryptic note on page 76 reads "Earlier in the year...