Word: mound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropoff has thrust senior signal caller Burke St. John into the starting role, backed up by junior Jim Keyte. Both starters for the baseball team--St. John at shortstop and Keyte on the mound--the pair have talent but lack varsity playing time...
...long as anyone can remember, villagers called it Tillya Tepe-the Golden Mound. Even so, no one dreamed of the precious relics that might be unearthed in the strange, 12-ft.-high rise of ground located in a cotton field three miles north of the town of Shibarghan in northern Afghanistan. In 1977 a Soviet-Afghan archaeological team began serious excavations. By last fall they had uncovered the mud-brick columns and cross-shaped altar of an ancient temple dating back to at least 1000 B.C. Then they struck pay dirt-a glittering trove of gold that some Soviets said...
...with a fog machine filling the room with smoke at the very moment the couple broke the glasses. This week seven couples will tie the knot in front of some 15,000 spectators in the Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. The group ceremony takes place on the pitcher's mound before a Braves game...
...scribes' mound-man Steve Herzenberg twirled masterful two-hit ball, but lost his shutout bid when short-fielder Bob Boorstin committed three embarrassing errors to let in a pair of unearned runs in the seventh...
...first-year mentor saw that Keyte's mound problems were due to the fact that he had "changed his motion without telling me a week-and-a-half ago. I have no idea why he did it. Unbelievable. I changed him back in the third inning," Nahigian said...