Word: timers
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...defuse tensions and relax his colleagues at difficult moments. Many of his stories, taken from his seemingly limitless stock, were directly applicable to a point being argued. Many were self-deprecatory, all were hilarious. When he began one of them, his "eyes would sparkle with fun," one old-timer remembered, "and when he reached the point in his narrative which invariably evoked the laughter of the crowd, nobody's enjoyment was greater than...
...front lot of Ford's Lima, Ohio, engine plant for 28 years. So when United Auto Workers Local 1219 and Ford last year signed an agreement requiring employees with foreign cars to park in a back lot more than half a mile away from the factory, the old-timer ignored the new rule and continued to leave his 1981 Nissan in the front...
...managing the Reds. But Rose, the player, would have been on strike. "I wasn't going to get the hit that way," he shudders. "I think most people will forgive me for breaking Cobb's record. From the beginning, didn't they say I played like an old-timer? I guess I was an old-timer before my time...
...timer? He is the Cro-Magnon man. Going into last weekend, he needed 20 more hits before he would reach 4,191, return to 1928 and rendezvous with the roughest competitor in baseball's history, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Somehow Rose overshot his true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named...
...24th power-play strike. Set up deep in the St. Lawrence defensive zone with a man advantage, junior Julie Chu fed the puck to sophomore Caitlin Cahow at the right face-off circle, who then threaded a pass to Corriero at the left post for an easy one-timer. From that point on, Corriero, who was being marked as the collegiate single-season goals record-holder, yielded to Vaillancourt to shoulder the offensive burden...