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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (8 Down) phalanx (NOUN) 1. Any of the bones (or phalanges) of the fingers or toes. 2. A body of troops in close formation. 3.
Any closely ranked crowd of people. (As early as the 8th century BCE, the
phalanx was used as a tactical formation in war by the Spartans. There are also
records of the phalanx, as a formation of soldiers, having been used in ancient
Greece, where a marching order of heavy infantry, closed ranks with shields and
spears overlapping.) The word derives from Latin, from Greek: phalanx,
phalangos line of battle.
Did You Know? (22 Across) Tommy Lasorda made his Major League Baseball debut as a player with the
Brooklyn Dodgers in August of 1954. His playing career in the majors lasted
for three seasons. Lasorda went on to become one of the top managers in baseball
history, managing the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996. With Lasorda at the
helm, the Dodgers went to the World Series four times, winning twice (in 1981
and 1988). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997, his first
year on the ballot.
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