Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Deadly Field...
More important, he has been deadly from the field--8 for 16 last night. And they have been good shots, not the forced, awkward efforts he favored during a long mid-season slump...
...contestants climb onto the blocks, the 4-ft., 11-in., 82-pounder scrutinizes the field checking for false starters, while one finger rests anxiously on his combination wrist and stop watch...
Throughout history, controls have seemed a tempting quick fix for inflation. Nearly 40 centuries ago, the Babylonian King Hammurabi established wage and price limits. They set, for example, the annual wage of a field worker at eight gur (75 bu.) of corn and that of a herdsman at six gur (56.25 bu.). The Roman Emperor Diocletian in A.D. 301 published official price lists that included artichokes and transportation by camel; any gougers were executed. The most recent American experience with general controls was President Nixon's 1971-74 program of freezes, followed by varying degrees of restraint...
...jovially first-naming Mike Wallace all through the 60 Minutes program in which Wallace skillfully cuts him up. The first important dustup over press bias has come from Tom Shales, the Washington Post's usually acute television critic. He accused all three networks of having had "a field day playing Get Teddy." He also discovered an unnamed "veteran political observer" to explain it: "There's been so much garbage about how the press loves the Kennedys in recent years that the reporters feel they all have to establish their neutral credentials by knocking him around." Perhaps some...