Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a pair of runs in the fifth and a single tally in the sixth, however, Maine appeared to have the game in the bag, Lynn Hearty, the UM pitcher, gave up consecutive doubles in the sixth, to Brown and Hayes, but still took a comfortable three-run cushion with her to the mound in the seventh...
Stacked up a big cushion, Boston southpaw Bruce Hurst breezed to the triumph, shattering 10 hits and walking only one in seven innings before giving way to reliever Mark Clear. Bob Ojeda pitched the ninth...
...bookbinding business and a 300-acre dairy farm. When Bernhard was twelve, his father was accused and convicted on charges of molesting two 15- year-old boys. The elder Goetz appealed the verdict and later pleaded guilty on a reduced charge of disorderly conduct. To cushion Bernhard and his sister Bernice from the trauma, he sent them to a boarding school in a cathedral town in Switzerland, where Goetz spent his high school years...
...Union members have not had a raise since they agreed to defer a 14% pay increase in 1980. "I expect a long strike," said Michael Bakalo, a T.W.U. vice president. Securities analysts noted that the airline has some $400 million in cash on hand that it could use to cushion the impact of a lengthy walkout. But a protracted struggle could severely harm both the troubled airline and the strikers...
...abruptness of an ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt, the other by the attributes of her martyrdom: the sword tipped with a red reflection from the cushion, meeting the palm frond at an angle subtended by the arc of the broken wheel...