Word: balling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...learn for a nineteen year old. Her father, Karolj Seles, was the anti-tennis father, the exception amidst a crowd of money-hungry entrepreneurs pushing their sons and daughters for that extra endorsement, that last exhibition. He was a gentle man, a cartoonist who drew caricatures on tennis balls to get young Monica to focus on the ball when she hit her punishing groundstrokes...
...televised scoreboard above our heads, a blinking arrow points to the first empty frame, urging us to get the ball rolling. Mutual assurances of "it's been a while..." and "this is just a friendly match," cut the tension. And finally, with a rumbling, the game begins...
...After the first round, the retrieving system spits out the Professor's heavy black ball. It rolls along the metal shoot until it rests next to FM's neon green, glittery-swirled ball, and the video screen above our heads plays a loud computer graphic of a stick figure getting a strike and celebrating by leaping around in the air. The figure's dance is intermittently interrupted by flashes of a red X. The sequence holds our attention for a few seconds and then fades back into the scoreboard where a smaller red x appears in Professor Putnam's first...
...Interrupting Putnam on his roll, the computerized stick figure cuts in with a merciless dramatization of a gutter ball. "I bowled a one", my fellow FMer says sheepishly as he sits back down in his plastic chair...
...Clutching his ball up in ready position, he steps up to the lane, and we watch and learn...