Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's late inning comeback surge wasn't enough to overcome the Lions Two singles and a long double off varsity pitcher Dick Garibaldi gave Columbia two runs in the first inning. In the second inning Garibaldi lost his control, walking four straight batters and giving up a grand-slam home run to Doug Bohaboy...
Second: The team in the majors, the Yankees, could very well other pennant this year, damned if I'll pick them Mantel, Roger Maris, and ron are broad-backed nonentities who slam the ball out of sight and return to oblivion immediately afterwards. Who cares? After what the Yankees did to Casey Stengel, nothing is too bad for them...
...figure of serious fun. The story's uncertain hero is a printer in a small Indian town who bats out jobs on an ancient press but finds his real pleasure in running a kind of literary salon whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning...
...crucial match, varsity mainstay Red Grant came through with a 4-0 decision over Princeton's Dan Dent in the 191-pound class. A Tiger win would have tied the match and led to eventual victory, since heavyweight Duke Hurley lost 6 to 5 to Gerry Norton on a slam penalty...
...long run it may also open the way for a chain reaction of similar breakoffs by other nations disgusted with Castro, and lead to collective action by the Organization of American States. A hemisphere quarantine against the bearded revolutionary is probably months away, but the doors are beginning to slam shut throughout Latin America...