Word: pennant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work for it. The church, in fact, says that it does not mind that Johnson, a former college instructor with a Ph.D., lobbied for the amendment by testifying at a hearing of the U.S. Senate. Or that she once flamboyantly hired a plane to drag a MORMONS FOR ERA pennant over Salt Lake City during a Mormon Church meeting. It claims that she had accused the leadership of "savage misogyny." She explains that the phrase was directed only at Mormon culture in general. A fifth-generation Latter-day Saint, she intends to appeal Willis' punishment to higher church authorities...
...this season, there's an expansion team--the Concerned Cambridge Citizens--which shows no sign of winning the pennant, instead serving notice that after next spring training it may emerge a stronger squad...
...ninth, then the Pirates attached men to second and third with just one out. The call came to the bullpen for Brown. He followed an intentional walk with a strike out and a grounder to short. For the first time in eight years, the Astros had a Gulf League pennant. And a hero...
...seemed like we never could win a ball game the easy way," Pittsburgh Pirates Second Baseman Phil Garner said after a tenth-inning victory over the Cincinnati Reds in the second game of the National League championship playoff. He frowned, pursed his lips in remembrance of a grueling pennant race that was not decided until the season's final day, then broke into a grin. "But my, how time flies when you're having...
Heroics and histrionics marked Pittsburgh's year. Theirs was a disco-inferno season, a full-tilt boogie race for the pennant punctuated by the psyching-up war whoops of All-Star Rightfielder Dave Parker, the ego-deflating insults of Garner and the popping of corks by Team Captain Stargell, the oenophile first baseman. Typical play: a Pirate crashes a three-run home run to win an eleven-inning game. Typical congratulatory byplay: "Way to go, [bleep]!" "Thank you, [bleep]!" Other teams may deem it necessary to fine players to ensure promptness at the ballpark; the Pittsburgh locker room throbs...