Word: aloftness
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...realization that with every week and month of games lost, for all the fans still waiting patiently through this longest of rain delays, that many more foul balls don't get sprayed into the crowd, and kids like me, or real kids half my age, can't hold them aloft with the triumphant innocence of youth. And when baseball loses its youth, we won't have baseball...
...North Dakota with a bat and ball, and fans will flock. Maybe Greg Maddux or Jimmy Key will show up to do the pitching. That's the enduring glory of baseball -- it has survived war, fixed games, the Depression, racial segregation, beer commercials and artificial turf. A sign held aloft at Yankee Stadium last week said it all: THE GAME IS PERFECT. IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO SCREW IT UP. So even as sad-eyed fans brace for a season or two sabotaged by strike, there is comfort to be found. After all, it's only 18 short months until...
...critically acclaimed "Olympia," an exhaustive record of the 1936 Summer Olympics, which was revolutionary in its treatment of sports. Many of her innovations are still used today. It is fascinating to watch Riefenstahl describe some of her experiments, like underwater photography of diving events, and setting cameras aloft in balloons (Goodyear blimp, anyone...
...Cambodia, voters had a finger dipped in invisible ink and were told to hold it up in the air until dry.. Apparently, three days later people were seen still with their fingers held aloft. similar behavior here could have meant death to a rural peasant in Zululand, although perhaps not now that Inkatha is finally in on the election process...
BOSTON--The collective jaws of Harvard Hockey dropped in unison--of course, it's never supposed to end like this. Watching the other guys hold aloft the trophy destined for their possession precious few minutes earlier, wearing their imitation Crimson jerseys and flaunting the same sheep-eating grins the good guys had worn only one week earlier...