Word: balling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come in August, when Voyager 2 makes the last swing on its grand tour of the outer planets. Launched in 1977, the probe has already accumulated scientific data and taken spectacular pictures at Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Next stop: Neptune. From earth, Neptune appears as a tiny, fuzzy green ball of light, and its major moon, Triton, as an orange dot. Voyager will provide the first closeup view of both. Triton is especially tantalizing, since it is believed to have its own thin atmosphere of methane, and may be partly covered by oceans of liquid nitrogen...
...does the job that he is paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players to entertain us, to inspire us with feats of self-transcendence, to do the things that we can only dream of doing -- like hitting a 100-m.p.h. fast ball or leaping over fences to make the catch that saves the day. By those standards Boggs is one of the greatest wonders in the game today, whose level of consistent excellence would be the envy of anyone in any job. The vicissitudes of his private life are as irrelevant as his habit...
Dearing noted that his setter, Mark Mastin, had many kills by just tipping the ball over the net. Mastin's tip-overs and his teammate Mike Palazzo's blocks and spikes were three key reasons that led to the Crimson loss...
...really nervous during practice," Croteau said. "But after the first inning, I just tried to concentrate on the game. Maybe it will give other women incentive to play ball, or someone else can believe that they...
...really tough," Croteau said. "It kind of felt like I had the pressure of the world on my shoulders. I felt like I had to prove something. It's over and now I can just go out and play ball...