Word: soto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davis' three-run homer in the second inning helped Mario Soto survive an erratic performance and earn his fourth consecutive opening day victory...
After living as a church worker in a Brooklyn black ghetto, Robertson ( eventually landed in Virginia's Tidewater with $70 in cash, an aged De Soto, and a vision of "claiming" a defunct UHF station for Jesus. The price (divinely ordained, as Robertson saw it): $37,000. WYAH went on the air in 1961 with a weak signal, one camera, and a movie projector that frequently jammed. But America's first Christian TV station was afloat, to be followed by others in Atlanta, Dallas and Boston. After overcoming struggles that Robertson attributed to "satanic oppression," the operation developed money- raising...
Imagine that every American had the same weight and was placed on a flat, rigid map of the entire country. The balancing point would be just west of De Soto in Jefferson County, Mo. The center of population has been inching west by about 40 miles a decade, from outside Baltimore in 1790 and finally crossing the Mississippi in the 1970s...
...father, a Glasgow theater electrician and distillery worker, came to the U.S. in 1923, when Doug was seven, and eventually took a job at Chrysler's now defunct De Soto plant in Detroit. Fraser, who became a citizen with his parents in the late 1920s, followed his father into the factory and became active in the fledgling United Auto Workers union during the organizing drives that preceded World War II. He rose through the ranks to serve as U.A.W. president for six years, beginning in 1977, and earned a reputation as one of the nation's most respected labor leaders...
When Miami police captured Rafael Soto, 35, running down a darkened street soaking wet one night last week, they did not buy his story that he had fallen overboard while fishing. A little after 1 a.m., a Coast Guard helicopter had spotted a speedboat running without lights toward Miami. As the craft was pursued across Biscayne Bay, three men jumped overboard in an attempt to escape. Soto is believed to be one of them. The cargo on board: 1,909 lbs. of nearly pure cocaine. With a street value of $575 million, it was the largest coke seizure...