Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forwards had some very good ideas, and on a drier field you would have seen some brilliant plays," Scalise said. "On rainy days, you score goals by gutsing it out and getting your foot on the ball at the right moment...
...biggest problem for both teams seemed to be overrunning the ball, which had a tendency to take long baths on its way down the field...
...When the ball was in a puddle we just kicked and kicked and kicked until it was out," Brynteson said. "And when everyone is trying hard on a team, you're not going to be a wimp...
Judging from your article "Net Loss" [Sept. 3], it is quite obvious that your ECONOMY & BUSINESS reporters may know the size and bounce of the economy, but not of racquetball. Racquetball is more like handball or squash than tennis. It is played with a smaller racquet and faster ball...
...modeled his best-selling 1955 novel, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, partly on his boss. Says Wilson: "Roy had energy, courtesy, selfdiscipline. When most people were running on twelve volts, he was running on 440 volts. Asking him for a raise was like stabbing a billiard ball, but he had class. When I showed him my novel and asked if he wanted any changes, he said, 'Say anything you want to about me except that I asked a good writer to change a good book...