Word: playground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the Crimson couldn't crack Pelligrino, Providence resorted to some playground tactics to score two runs off Harvard hurler Lora Rowning in the fifth inning...
Peabody School, Linnaean St. (Entrance on playground side of building...
...less generous spirit, America's patchy playground directors were so dismayed by their meager share of the plunder (two gold, one silver and three bronze, in contrast to three gold medals for Finnish Ski Jumper Matti Nykanen alone) that they brought in New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner to help them harrumph. Promising importantly to look into it, he made noises about cost-effectiveness, dropped a few cold war phrases, filled a lot of newspaper columns and went home. Meanwhile, in front of the Village, one of the enemies of capitalism, G.D.R. Figure Skater Alexander Koenig, 21, politely priced...
...doubt years of daily hoops and playground stratagems could produce "natural" stars in the whitest suburbs too. The aspirations of ghetto youngsters, though, are distorted by another potent myth -- one that ironically will be strengthened by the success of Cunningham, Moon and Williams -- that professional sports can be a way out of poverty for a significant number of young black men. Only one of every 1,000 high school football players ever makes it to the pros -- hardly good odds, as the Greek might put it. Those searching for a better life would be well advised to pour the energy...
...basketball aficionados, Light implemented a fall three-player basketball program in the fall of 1986. These half-court games are a throwback to playground hoop, with the teams calling their own fouls and playing best two out of three games to 10 baskets...