Word: rust
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Hordon (2-3) showed signs of rust in the first inning, allowing two singles and two walks, balking on a full count and throwing a wild pitch past freshman catcher Schuyler Mann with the bases loaded that gave the Owls a 2-0 lead...
Pitching in his first game in two weeks, Hordon showed a bit of rust when he walked Yale leadoff hitter Zac Bradley to start the bottom of the first...
...suspended head image reappears in “Untitled (Lilypads),” where a turban-crowned man emerges out of a motionless lake of lily pads, his mouth enclosing a lily flower. The lily pads show the rust-brown of decay which lends the print an authentic, natural and autumnal feel...
CHINA Labor Troubles China's efforts to reform its industry brought thousands of workers onto the streets in the rust-belt cities of Daqing and Liaoyang to protest stopped wages and welfare benefits. Hundreds of armed police ringed Liaoyang's government offices and arrested three labor leaders who tried to arrange talks with officials. The whole northeast region is suffering massive unemployment as the state closes down inefficient and outdated factories...
...What can't be denied, however, is that in China's vast and troubled rust belt, workers are cautiously but increasingly taking collective action. In the urban wasteland of Zhengzhou in Henan province in central China, more than a thousand kilometers from last week's protests, workers have braved arrests and beatings to protest the closure of their factories. More workers are traveling the country, making contacts, liaising. "There's a level of organizing between factories that we haven't seen before," says Li Qiang of the New York City-based China Labor Watch, himself a former Sichuan construction worker...