Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your club strikes the ball with the force and angle which you intended, hits the green short of the flag and rolls into the cup, it did so in obedience to certain laws of physics which you set into action. Every molecule was doing its duty. This was your motive and intent...
Therefore, it must follow that since the hole-in-one was the result of planned deliberation on your part, your failure to get a hole-in-one at any time is necessarily the result of an accident. The ball does not conform with your plans since you struck it in a manner other than that which you intended...
There she squirmed, squinted at her nurses, swallowed milk through an eyedropper. Her heart beat regularly, and when she cried it bounced up & down on her chest like a tiny red rubber ball. Dr. Jesus Celius of the University of Santo Tomas refused to consider an operation to place her heart inside her chest. Reason: its aorta (main artery) would have to be shut off during the operation. Last week, after living seven days, little Maria Corazon died of pneumonia...
...after he had won nine games in a row, even the toughest skeptic had to admit that the Yankees were not making Donald but that Donald was helping make the Yankees. Last week, trying for his 13th consecutive victory, Rookie Donald, whose outstanding assets are a sneaky fast ball, a gimlet eye and a photographic mind, was defeated (by the Tigers) for the first time this year. He not only went down in the record books as the first pitcher ever to win twelve successive games in his first year as a major-leaguer, but presented Manager McCarthy with...
...like smacking a cantaloupe," said U. S. No. 1 Bobby Riggs, noisily objecting to the heaviness of the long-haired ball after it becomes grass-stained and moist. United States Lawn Tennis Association officials, ruefully watching their top-notchers eliminated in the early rounds, pondered using a special ball for future grass-court tournaments, retaining the fuzz ball for play on clay and concrete, where its heavy nap is no hindrance...