Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scott Bingham. Bob Wieck and Steve Richter have all been hitting over .300 against EIBL pitching, but Woodworth feels that his team will be decidedly weaker against a lefthander. Roz Braton will be on the mound for the Crimson and with a 7-0 record and a 0.00 E.R.A. he is more than just a lefthander--he is the best pitcher in the league...
...Kontum area and dispatched it to the hard-pressed provinces near the capital. That left a U-shaped string of firebases on the ridges overlooking the eerily quiet approaches to Kontum and along the Poko River Valley largely in the hands of one of ARVN'S weaker divisions, the 22nd...
...usual plethora of explanations: economic constraints, less confidence in business and legal institutions, decreasing interest in post-graduate study. But perhaps the most interesting one, new this year, is that prospective applicants, overwhelmed by their excessive numbers are reassessing their chances in huge applicant pools. The effect is that weaker candidates decide against applying in a judicious self-selectivity process...
Army is usually one of the tougher teams in the East but are weaker than usual this year. "They still can't be discounted because they fight hard and won't give up easily especially on clay," Nielson said yesterday...
...first large-scale experiment in the use of patrolwomen is under way in Washington, D.C., where the metropolitan police force is hiring 100 women for regular patrol duty. Still, resistance to the trend-mostly from officials who think being a patrolman is too dangerous for the "weaker sex"-must be overcome before many more of the nation's 6,000 policewomen (out of 400,000 police) are assigned to the streets...