Word: beate
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Against South African Christo Steyn in the anticlimax of Lloyd's 14 Wimbledons, he could summon no joy even while taking the first two sets. "Christo was awful the first two. The final three, I was horrendous. He didn't have that much to beat, really. If I'd actually wanted it and enjoyed it--if it came from within--I would have won. But there was no charge in me. I've been doing this since I was eight, thinking of the next tennis match." One of the gentler fish wrappers inquired about his overpowering emotion. Lloyd said...
Realistically, however, Bachrach is the only candidate who has a chance to beat out Kennedy for the Democratic nomination in the primary this September. According to most polls the liberal state senator is the second strongest candidate and among the most effective fundraisers. But the campaign themes Bachrach has chosen for his race against the son of Robert F. Kennedy will simply guarantee a victory for the Kennedy symbolism he denounces...
...about such arcana as the Brock6 system, Pythagorean projections and the devil's theory of park effects. The reason is that they find it hard to believe a bearded pseudo-academic, squirreled away with pad and pencil in Kansas, could possibly know more about the game than veteran beat writers, who & regularly trade locker-room gibes with Reggie and Pete and get to provide ringside coverage of Billy Martin's bouts with marshmallow salesmen...
...Cardinals' rookie outfielder, Vince Coleman, a long and brilliant account of the managerial chess game played at the 1985 world series, and a mordant treatise on the beloved and blinkered manager Chuck Tanner, who somehow failed to notice that his Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse had turned into a drug den (beat reporters, please copy...
...Damn if I remember," laughs Stephenson--who has no trouble at all remembering the name of the "track star" who beat him out for the honor of being the featured undergraduate speaker at the 300th's convocation ceremony...