Word: walks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forman's day had its ups and downs as well, and Greg Ubert was in the same boat. In the very next inning, Forman walked two of three batters, prompting Nahigian to yank him in favor of Ubert. The senior righthander struck out Kevin Connelly, but then served up a triple to Giroux, scoring both of Forman's walk recipients for a 5-2 Crimson deficit...
...before one goes on to call the U.S. the victor, one should consider whether, in the end, the Cold War has not left this nation with a fatally wounded economic infrastructure--allowing it to walk off the field of the Cold War today perhaps, but only to slowly bleed in relative decline tomorrow...
Still, testing is likely to spread, and many workers are, to say the least, uncomfortable with the idea. Peter Appelt, a Government employee, had to walk through an office full of people with a little cup in hand to get a promotion. "It was quite embarrassing," he says. "A nurse followed me into the men's room and stood outside the stall." He passed the test, and is now a senior inspector for the Customs Service at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
...done this at intervals most of my life, ever since I was eleven years old in Australia and my father first issued me a single-shot .22 and two bullets and told me to bring back one rabbit. I hope to keep doing it as long as I can walk...
...hometown Cincinnatian too enthusiastic ever to walk to first base, Rose arrived in the major leagues as a flat-topped Reds second baseman whom Mickey Mantle rechristened "Charlie Hustle." Through 24 seasons at five positions, Rose devoured the game with such a primitive pleasure that people said he had skipped his true generation. Usually sliding on his stomach, he inched closer and closer to the dustiest of legends until in 1985 he passed Ty Cobb in total hits and kept on going to a record 4,256 hits and 3,562 games. Then he became the legend...