Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each hand and shouting "Whommy! Whommy! Whommy!" at opposing players. His lackluster successor, Wes Westrum, guided the Mets past the Cubs to their first ninth-place finish. They recorded another first in 1966: they lost fewer than 100 games. Despite the change, attendance rose, and the steadfast fans still brandished their banners and sang their chants. But some of the old élan was gone. The Mets had become just another bad ball club...
...Still, the seeds of future success were being planted. The front office had developed a five-club farm system and hired a covey of scouts to prowl school stadiums and the American Legion circuit in search of promising talent. The scouting system sometimes flopped. In 1966 the Mets drafted as their first choice Catcher Steve Chilcott, passing up hard-hitting Reggie Jackson. Chilcott has never played a major league game, while Jackson?who has already hit 45 home runs for Oakland this season?is developing into one of baseball's great sluggers. Sometimes, though, the Mets had better luck. That...
...U.S.C., he had appeared to be anything but a prize major league prospect?even in his own eyes. "I frankly thought I was too small," says Seaver, who now stands 6 ft. 1 in. and weighs a respectable 200 Ibs. "I had decided to become a dentist." He was still fairly small when he graduated from high school, he recalled recently, "but there was one advantage in it. I couldn't throw hard enough to rely on my fastball, so I concentrated on sliders and curves...
...common effort, even Israel and the Arab countries have cooperated, and still do. Last week, for the first summer in 40 years, London's "situation summary" did not list a single menacing locust swarm. The FAO was pleased but not triumphant. Quite likely, as the FAO was the first to point out, an atypical lack of rainfall had inhibited breeding, since the locust's eggs must absorb their weight in water to hatch. Thus the FAO cautioned against concluding that the locust had simply dropped out of the picture. "He is still a global menace in a trough...
...decrease in the death rate might not occur during the period of anticipation before Christmas-perhaps because of the familiar pressures that also accompany that season. Or it might not apply to ordinary people whose birthdays are not celebrated with the fuss that surrounds a man of fame. Still, the statistics that Phillips has gathered are convincing enough to impress the Russell Sage Foundation, which is oriented toward the social sciences; it has just given him an eleven-month grant for additional explorations of the vital buoyancy of optimism. Eventually he hopes to establish that anticipating significant events can help...