Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then, everyone loves fruitless speculation, especially when the mirage of hope glimmers on the horizon. After all, even the Red Sox can pull it off now and then. So when the mini-summit in Iceland between Reagan and Gorbachev was announced, a universal gasp of optimism went up: maybe this year something would actually happen...
...encouraging that Herschbach, having won recognition for research on "the lunatic fringe" of science, turns out to be the most able to explain his research not only in plain English, but in graphically illustrative terms. He drew an analogy last Wednesday--the day the Boston Red Sox won the American League penant--to show how his work makes it possible to look at the motion of individual molecules rather than groups of them. "Suppose baseball were played by millions of pitchers throwing millions of balls at millions of batters at the same time. No one would be interested because...
...from reporters and posing in front of his machines for the rest of the afternoon, Herschbach attended an evening party in his honor at the home of Erving Professor of Chemistry William Klemperer, who Chemistry Labs Director Donald J. Ciappenelli said would certainly have a television turned to the Sox game...
...next day the sun warmed Fenway, and the Red Sox once again warmed my soul, showing the Angels that wining by seven runs isn't so hard...
Equipped with a new Red Sox sweatshirt and a "press box attendant" pass, I arrived at Gate B both days more than four hours before game time...