Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...batters on the amateur baseball teams around the coal mines of Ohio and West Virginia where he worked. Later, he taught it to his elder son Phil, who by the age of eight could dig his fingertips into the ball and send it floating without spin toward the strike zone, dipping and zigzagging in the air currents. Younger Son Joe tried the pitch, but his hands were too small, so he concentrated on the conventional pitcher's repertory of fastball, curve and slider...
...would swing at it, and the ball ended up going behind him." Umpire Doug Harvey recalls: "Once Phil's catcher dived full length to his right to catch a ball that looked like it was going into the dirt, and the thing came back up across the strike zone for a called third strike, then hit me in the left shoulder...
...Dead Zone, King...
...Young: an unauthorized meeting with P.L.O. sympathizers in Gaza. Unlike Young, Dayan kept his job. The Israelis say their aims in southern Lebanon are threefold: to force the Palestinian guerrillas to leave the area, to help the enclave of Lebanese Christians and Shi'ites survive in a buffer zone along the border, and to strengthen Israel's bargaining position in any future negotiations with Syria concerning the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israelis claim that Palestinian terrorists attempted 27 raids on Israeli territory from Lebanon in the past four months, and that each time the Palestinians were fought...
Adams has never repudiated his commercial photography. Like his teaching, or the extensive researches that led to his invention of the "zone" system of exposure calculation, or his 30-year association with the Polaroid Corp., commercial work helped him perfect his craft. And craft is central to Adams' achievement. The negative is the score," he likes to say. "The print is the performance...