Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rowning settled down after the first inning and began to mow down the Falcon batters, yielding only three hits in the first seven innings while striking out seven...
...eighth Bentley finally broke through for a run against Rowning. With one out, Rowning walked Falcon hitter Patty Flanigan and Rowning's wild pitch moved the runner to second. The next batter, Vicki Westover, then doubled to give the Falcons their margin of victory...
...target with an infrared light beam has made the Lazer Tag gun the hottest high-tech toy on the market, although it has been condemned by critics for promoting violence. Now the game's realism appears to have cost a young player his life. One night last week Leonard Falcon, 19, and three young friends were darting about Central Elementary % School in Rancho Cucamonga, a suburban town 45 miles east of Los Angeles, zapping each other with the beams from their guns. During the mock combat, Falcon jumped from behind bushes, assumed a shooting stance and fired his plastic pistol...
...light from the toy gun made it look as if a real pistol were being fired. "The deputy reacted as he had been trained to react," said City Manager Lauren M. Wasserman. "He had a hundredth of a second to make a decision." Said the boy's father Joseph Falcon, who had been uneasy about the toy guns: "Something has got to be done to warn people...
Toward the end of Saturday's game, some Harvard fans advised Falcon Coach Jerry York that since his players obviously were not going to stage, a miraculous comeback, he should "play, the chicken...