Word: battlers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great American freeloader is a model of concision and balance. So are his pieces on James Joyce as "injustice collector" and "unfinished genius," Tolstoy as a "prodigy of self-inhibitions" and "self-indulgence," Yeats as a hero of "creative aging," and T.S. Eliot as a successful battler against will-sapping depression...
...Pitching: A strength. If Bill Larson continues to improve, he'll be all-league next year. Billy Doyle is a battler, Greg Brown a flame-thrower, and John Sorich's knuckle-curve a dazzling out pitch from the bullpen...
...lavished material goods on them, but otherwise paid scarcely any attention to them; in fact he rarely slept at home, preferring the laboratory. His first wife died grossly overweight; his second once said their marriage had been "no great love." The Hollywood picture of Edison as a dedicated battler for the good of humanity could hardly be more wrong. Much as his inventions did benefit humanity, Edison's object was to make money, as much as he could. His first patent was on a device for automatically and speedily recording votes in Congress and state legislatures; but because such...
DIED. John Cardinal Wright, 70, gregarious supervisor of the Roman Catholic Church's 410,000 priests since 1969; of polymyositis; in Cambridge, Mass. As Bishop of Pittsburgh (1959-69), the Boston-born Wright was a fierce battler against racial discrimination, an opponent of the Viet Nam War and an outspoken theological conservative, opposing the ordination of women. He was also an authority on Joan of Arc. Even as the highest ranking American in the Vatican Curia, he never forgot his roots, dining nearly every Saturday on Boston baked beans...
Along with Meyers at the forward spot will be sophomore Wendy Carle. An aggressive, hard-nosed battler, Carle gave the women needed strength last year and should help the inside game this year. Lori Christensen, another scrappy insider, will give the women plenty of power off the bench...