Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plate and put the Orioles behind, three games to one. In the final game the Oriole pitcher and first baseman conspired to commit two errors on a single play (shades of Marvelous!) to permit the last, poetic Met run to score. The Oriole manager, a stocky fellow named Weaver, even began to look and act like a funny old fellow named Casey Stengel, who used to run the Mets. During the fourth game, in a transport of fury, Weaver was banished from the field. But nothing could hide the awful fact that the Oriole power had failed. Their heralded hitters...
Winslow Briggs, Biology Malcolm Gillis, Economics Herbert Levi, MCZ Thomas Pettigrew, Social Relations Paul Weaver. Government
...long before he endured his first imprisonment and betrayal. Typically, while his colleagues scuttled out of town to escape the police, Kropotkin was caught because he felt obliged to keep his date with the local geological society to expound his theory on the ice cap. A weaver in his "circle" broke his alias to the police. There was no trial. The prince was shut up "at the Czar's pleasure." However, the Czar did allow him books and papers to work ("till sunset only") on his two-volume geography...
...stacks, while selling a new line of pollution-abatement equipment to other industries. Thus Monsanto has moved into a growing market that it estimates may soon reach $6 billion a year. "By 1975, we hope to be doing $200 million a year in such business," says Leo Weaver, general manager of Monsanto's new department, Environmental Control Enterprises...
...chief asset is strength. Although his motion is deceptively smooth, McNally comes off the mound so hard that he regularly snaps his shoelaces. As evidenced by last year's performance, his 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. frame is not easily sapped by the heat. Says Manager Earl Weaver: "Dave has it all, and when he puts it together, it can be a no-hitter any time he pitches. When his control is right, he's just about unbeatable...