Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conferees heard university professors lecture on the Action Line concept. ("Conversely, where one cannot rely on the power of the third-party intervenor, alienation appears to increase.") They made some Action Line merit awards, started a newsletter and planned next year's second annual Action Line Conference, this time without Coming's benign sponsorship...
...there was a lot of serious talk about why alienation appears to decrease where one can rely on the third-party intervenor, i.e., why Action Lines are so popular. "Poor people have services provided," theorized Rita Levine of WELI'S Call for Action in Hamden, Conn. "Rich people can buy them. People in the middle get squeezed. They feel impotent in the corporate marketplace. They complain, get rebuffed and figure, Why bother? Well, we bother for them...
...Yanks tallied early on a Roy White homer which squeaked inside the right-field foul pole. In the second inning, Bucky Dent popped a grounder to third base, scoring Nettles for a 2-1 Yankee lead...
...Dodgers countered in the top of the third when center-fielder Bill North scored on a Bill Russell grounder to deep short. A close call by the first-base umpire (giving rise to Yankee fans' cries of "Bullshit, bullshit") helped out on the play...
Dent singled to left to start the rally, and centerfielder Mickey Rivers beat out a beautiful bunt on the following play to put men on first and second. Roy White then sacrificed Dent to third, with pinch-runner Paul Blair breaking up a Dodger double-play effort...