Word: alit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he walked eight and failed to retire the side in any inning, his fastball-and-curve repertoire worked just well enough to win. The Engineers managed only three hits on the afternoon--a line shot to center and a couple of wobbly ducks that alit just past the infield...
...contrary, the French are miserable and inhibited in their lovemaking, according to the recently published La Réalité Sexuelle (375 pages; Laffont; $8). Roger-Pol Droit, 25, and Antoine Gallien, 27, have gathered together 22 vivid tape-recorded interviews from people of different ages and backgrounds-but with similar complaints. "I never thought marriage involved sexual relations," confessed a 42-year-old Marseilles secretary. "She'd always say the same thing: 'I'm going to end up pregnant,' " complained her husband. A 36-year-old librarian from Dieppe said that she had accepted...