Word: ty
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crass: Cot-tuh's pah-ty...
...kins: the othuh pah-ty...
...ty: a political grouping...
...Brooklyn Dodger outfielder who stole a spot in the Hall of Fame by swiping 738 bases during a 20-year career in the majors that ended in 1933; of cancer; in Miami. Noting Carey's better success ratio, some baseball observers rate him above legendary Base Bandit Ty Cobb, who finished his 24-year American League career with 892 steals. But while in one year Cobb was thrown out 38 times in 134 attempts, Carey, in 1922, stole 51 bases in 53 attempts...
...author endows his most gro tesque characters with a certain beau ty. His kinkiest people - an albino Negro pyromaniac, a senile, one-eyed dishwasher - are the imaginings of a major talent...