Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garp himself begins in an act of highly spiced imagination. During World War II, his mother, Nurse Jenny Fields, climbs into bed with a ball-turret gunner who has been lobotomized by a piece of flak. The gunner, Technical Sergeant Garp, dies shortly afterward, leaving only the initials of rank for his son's first name. For Jenny, her one and only sexual experience is a calculated insemination consistent with her independent nature. As she writes in A Sexual Suspect, the autobiography that makes her famous, "I wanted a job and I wanted to live alone. That made...
...fact, they might have edited the maxim to read "Great" hitting will make any pitching look sick," for when the basepath dust had finally cleared after the second game, the club-thumping, ball-mashing Quakers from Pennsylvania had swept the Harvard baseball team in a doubleheader...
Having synchronized their swings in the Big Three meet on Thursday, the Crimson linksters continued to gyrate with lyrical accuracy yesterday and left URI and Southern Connecticut State following the bouncing ball at the Point Judith Country Club in Naragansett...
...ball long enough to make pars there," he said. Raffi did make a birdie on the par three 12th when he drained a transcontinental putt...
...next morning Ouimet, accompanied by his ten-year-old urchin of a caddie, Eddie Lowery, astounded the golf world by matching the best ball of Vardon and Ray. Ouimet shot a 72, birdieing the 17th once again to take a three-stroke lead over Vardon. Vardon finished with a 77 and Ray shot a 79. After the monumental victory, which has since been christened "the shot heard round the world," Ouimet went out and celebrated by downing a drink called a "horse's neck," a concoction of lemon juice and ginger...