Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Ehrlichman threw a tennis ball high in the air, and lashed at it, his neck cords straining. " ?The Ends of Power...
...Models are not elected or anointed, but every couple of years the ball of flaming gas that is the U.S. communications industry indicates that a new One is at hand. By assuming office she becomes the nation's muse, our new moon. In earlier manifestations, the Top Model was Lisa Fonssagrives, Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton. Now, lambent in the pages of Harper's Bazaar and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ineffable on a talk show, utterly right at the right disco, a splendid beacon in the mind of every wistful teen-age buyer of eye enlarger and cheekbone sharpener, a poster...
...Lions have come a long way under Penders's tutelage. Three years ago they won only four games. The following year they won eight, and last year 16. Right now they are a cocky and well-disciplined ball club that has won 12 of its last 14 games...
These are the days of the disco juggernaut and the electronic blip. No longer can you go to Jamson's Nook in San Francisco and hear the players ball their twisted soul-horns into the night...
Edmonds--the game's high scorer with 24--nearly saved it for the Big Green, tipping a Fine pass with ten seconds left, but then came Stenhouse, darting to save the ball and then arching the ball on its parabolic path...