Word: soles
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WHEN TERRENCE MCNALLY'S Love! Valour! Compassion! transferred from off-Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club to the Walter Kerr Theater last month, it instantly took on a special status: it became the sole new straight play on Broadway, and only the third to open there all season (out of 15 new productions in total). McNally rightly saw the distinction as dubious. "I take very little pleasure in it," he told a luncheon of the American Theater Wing shortly afterwards. "I wish there were 30 new plays on Broadway...
Jackie Robinson was the athlete who broke American professional sports' color barrier, and his dignity crystallized the injustice of segregation. Curt Flood's 1969 challenge of the reserve clause (under which the team reserves the sole right to negotiate with a player for the following year(s)), although ultimately unsuccessful, was a revolutionary step in the direction of player freedom...
Fourteen suspects were already in custody for the crime, so Chapa astonished the journalists with his final charge. The former President's brother Raul, he said, had ``co-authored'' the crime with another politician, who had previously been identified as the sole mastermind of the killing. The charges were doubly shocking given the personal links between the two: Raul's sister was once married to Ruiz Massieu and Raul is godfather to the couple's daughter...
...Skies finally cleared today in Southern California, but the deluge continued in the northern part of the state. TIME San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson says much of central California's budding agricultural valley is submerged, which could drive up food prices nationwide. California is the U.S.'s sole source of almonds and artichokes and grows much of the country's tomatoes, strawberries and lettuce...
...scene before 2 a.m. and there until 11 a.m. Underground during the graveyard shift, he bakes everything from donuts, croissants and muffins to brownies, cakes and pies. On big baking days, 300 pounds of flour will pass through the gargantuan ovens. The bakery down under is the sole provider of goodies for all the houses, the Greenhouse Cafe, three other on-campus cafes and Harvard Catering...