Word: cy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike Flanagan (23-9) was beaten 7-1 in the fifth game, three-time Cy Young Winner Jim Palmer lost 4-0 in the sixth, and Scott McGregor (13-6) was beaten in the final game 4-1. Over that span, Baltimore managed 17 hits, but seldom at the right time. The Orioles had a chance to salvage the Series in the last game when they loaded the bases in the eighth inning; not a run scored...
Palmer was a surprise starter to some, as the righthander, 10-6 in the regular season, had been struggling with arm problems. However, Oriole manager Weaver elected to start his three-time Cy Young Award winner over Mike Flanagan, the 23 game winner who will most likely win this year's award...
...Middle East last April. Once again the narrow limits of Carter's talent pool were revealed, for Strauss had little cachet in the diplomatic field, but he would bring the President a more audacious and political style in the Middle East. "I don't care whether Cy likes it or not," Carter told his aides, anticipating a protest from Vance. The President made certain to tell Brzezinski explicitly that he wanted Strauss's role enlarged beyond that of an ordinary ambassador, no matter how it upset Vance...
...line toward the Soviets and opposed his successful campaign to speed up normalization with China. Whenever Vance chose to challenge Brzezinski by going directly to the President, as he did over the adviser's repeated alarms about Cubans in Africa, Vance always won. But such challenges were rare. "Cy's not a good infighter," conceded one of his admirers. "He's abdicated whole subject areas to Zbig." It was that very willingness to compromise, to negotiate interminably, that eventually dampened Carter's high opinion of Vance...
...Vance's deputies and blasted State, saying the next time he would take the issue right to Carter. "Strauss is in business for himself," said a top State Department official who is appalled at Vance's plight. "He doesn't give a goddam what Cy says...