Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marshall is a man of considerable enterprise. He skydives and sells portable telephones; he used to peddle wigs and manage a rock group called Danny's Reasons. He also has a less frivolous job. Every Sunday afternoon he and the other three behemoths who make up the Minnesota Viking defensive line terrorize National Football League quarterbacks. "Our job," says Marshall, "is to meet at the quarterback." He and his fellow Vikings do just that-as violently and efficiently as any frontline foursome in the game. They are the chief reason why the Vikings moved into a first-place...
...Opposite is a gathering of some of the most notorious bandits of the West, Jesse James, Frank James, and Cole Younger. They robbed banks and trains for ten years, killing men in most of the stick-ups, until their gang was just about wiped out in Northfield, Minnesota. With them stands William Quantrill, who formed a band of guerrillas, of which the other three were all members, and which, as a unit of the Confederate Army, sacked Lawrence, Kansas...
Meanwhile, Baltimore crushed the Minnesota Twins, 11-2, to earn the right to meet the Mets in the World Series, which starts Saturday in Baltiniore...
...Minnesota Twins failed in the clutch once again yesterday, and the Orioles are now up, 2-0. Reserve outfielder Curt Motten lined a single into centerfield with two outs in the 11th inning, and Boog Powell crossed the plate to give the Orioles a 1-0 victory...
...have learned a lot," said Minnesota Democratic Senator Walter Mondale. "We learned how to work together, and they are going to hear more from us in the future." It sounded like postgame, locker-room bitterness. But the stakes were high-the $20 billion defense-appropriations bill for weapons and research-and last week, Mondale and other Defense Department critics were losers as the bill swept the Senate by an 81-5 vote...