Word: evers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Mencken once described Pittsburgh as "...appalling desolation. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth--and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke...
...undergraduate here now has ever been on CRR, so no one knows what really goes on there," one member said...
...transformation prudently, choosing not to act out a drastic change of character, instead letting the circumstances around him shape his metamorphosis. His easy command of Gilbert's dialogue renders his earnest, deadpan performance natural and often slyly comical. Hovey uses his strong, sweet tenor to a similar end, mocking ever so slightly his heartwrenchingly serious solos...
Burleson, the American League's All-star shortstop in 1977 and 1979, joined the Red Sox in 1974 and has been the club's regular shortstop ever since. He has a major league lifetime batting mark of .273, including an average of .293 in his best season...
...overwhelmed by what I thought was improved personnel," Holt says. "Actually, the players are all coming from the same place. What makes the difference is a random factor that can be something you can't even put your hand on. I don't believe any one of us should ever accept that because a team blows another team out it can't be reversed the next time...