Word: vida
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mousavi Garmaroudi, a teacher with the ministry of education in Iran, was arrested toward the end of 1973. The Iranian authorities have never announced any charges against him... Vida Tabrizi, sociologist and researcher at the University of Teheran, was arrested in July 1972 and detained in Teheran's Ghas Prison..." (excerpted from the Newsletter of the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran...
SUNDAY. A mailman handed a special delivery letter for Edgar Bronfman to Frank Vida, the doorman at Bronfman's Manhattan apartment on Park Avenue. It was a dime short in postage, which Vida paid and duly noted on the envelope. The letter was a curious two-page, single-spaced typewritten document from the kidnapers, and it contained these main provisions...
...clubhouse, he was greeted by growls from his players: "Christ, Charlie's back again." If Finley heard, he gave no sign; he was too busy handing out samples of his latest innovation for the national pastime?Day-Glo orange baseballs. Pitcher Vida Blue, still seething with the memory of past salary battles, flicked his orange ball into his locker with contempt. Slugger Reggie Jackson asked Finley only half facetiously if his recent hitting streak (eight home runs, 21 RBIS and a .388 average in 17 games) was worth a raise. "You've got to hit consistently," shot back Finley...
...took advantage of early-round selections to sign Outfielder Rick Monday and Third Baseman Sal Bando. The next year he grabbed Reggie Jackson for $85,000. In 1968, the year Finley transplanted the A's to Oakland, he flew to Mansfield, La., to corral a high school fastballer named Vida Blue for a more modest $35,000. Three years ago, Bargain Hunter Finley paid $3,000 for an obscure 17-year-old named Claudell Washington. This year Washington is the A's leading hitter, batting .321 last week (TIME, July...
Perhaps. But even the losers agree that arbitration is better than the long, bitter salary disputes of other years. Reggie Jackson held out for higher pay in 1970, Vida Blue in '72, and both say Finley humiliated them by publicly ridiculing their ability and their salary demands. Says Jackson, who was only 23 at the time: "Charlie wanted to make me bend. He wanted to show me who was boss." Finley showed him. Late that season, his rancor still running strong, Jackson hit a grand-slam home run. While crossing home plate he looked up and raised a fist...