Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course the Yankees are good. Six men hit more than 20 home runs for the Bombers this season--Maris (61), Mickey Mantle (54), Bill Skowron (28), Yogi Berra (22), Elston Howard (21), and John Blanchard (21). But you must remember that all these inflated marks were made in a 162* game* season.* Howard also had the highest batting average on either World Series team--.348 (which is equivalent to approx. .327 for a 154 game season...
...minority groups all over India would start to go on hunger strikes on every conceivable issue. Already the fasting fad has spread among the country's zealous crackpots: in Rajasthan, a peasant staged a two-week fast to protest a change in village boundaries; in Amritsar, one Yogi Surya Dev, who had begun a counterfast on the same day Masterji started his, continued to feed his soul by sniffing flowers...
...usually was a catcher-one of a remarkable Yankee trio whose versatility, both at bat and in the field, is unmatched in baseball history. In a season when both major leagues can boast fewer than half a dozen topflight catchers, the three best belong to the Yankees: ·YOGI BERRA. At 36 the oldest of the Yankee catchers, stumpy (5 ft. 8 in., 191 Ibs.), durable Yogi Berra is nearing the end of his 19-year baseball career. No catcher in history has hit so many home runs (337); no ballplayer has played in more World Series...
...flannel skirt. Claire was fascinated by the intense, 34-year-old author, and visited him several times in Cornish. She soothed her family with a story that showed close attention to the master's style: Salinger lived, she said, with his mother, sister, 15 Buddhist monks, and a yogi who stood on his head. The girl discovered mysticism. "She was hung on the Jesus Prayer." recalls her brother Gavin, a wandering movie photographer. "Jerry is very good at hanging people on things...
...they seem to be smiling a happy welcome to visitors-but too few campers realize that a bear hardly ever smiles: he just looks that way all the time, even when he is rummaging through a garbage can or swatting somebody in the head. Like TV's cartoon Yogi Bear, the beasts at Yellowstone are "smarter than the average bear": they can open automobile doors, and some have been known to slip a paw through a small ventilator window of a car and open the door from the inside. At Yellowstone recently, a good-sized black bear ambled...