Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billions each year in the businesses." Once in business, Reagan noted, the Government is reluctant to get out: "Congress ordered the liquidation of the Spruce Products Corp. in 1920, but 30 years later it was still in existence. The corporation was founded in World War I to find spruce wood for airplane frames...
Among the better bets: Call Me by My Rightful Name, a fresh piece about a triangle of misfits; Under Milk Wood, a welcome reprise of the Dylan Thomas work; The American Dream, Edward Albee's surrealistic situation comedy; Albee's The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, on a double bill of disenchantment; and the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical, The Threepenny Opera, the longest-running play in New York...
...pretty well. When I came up to the majors, very few pitchers had it. It fits the shape of this bat. It comes in like a fast ball and breaks a few inches in toward the hands of the batter. That means it breaks in where there is no wood in the bat. Just the thin handle. It breaks so late you can't adjust your swing for it. Used to be all you had to worry about was the fast ball, the curve and the change-up. Add the slider and right there the batter's problem...
...tennis-playing days, Sidney Wood Jr. was a wiry scrapper who made up for his lack of strength with a ferocious will that led him to the 1931 Wimbledon championship and a place as one of the game's international stars. When his son, Sidney Wood III, was eight years old, the old campaigner set out to teach him the game of tennis the only way he knew how. "I don't believe in halfway measures." the father says. "I was never satisfied if anything was even slightly wrong with Sid's game-even if the fault...
Last fortnight Wood and two other Yale tennis players were driving down to Miami to start the 1961 season. Their sta tion wagon plunged off the road outside Fayetteville, N.C. The crash killed Team Captain T. Craig Joyner and injured Stewart Ludlum Jr. Last week, after relays of doctors had worked for four days, Sidney Wood III died...