Word: bounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebounds, where Harvard won the game, Royer led the pack with 16. Kanuth followed with 12 and Gallagher was able to grab 11. Manuel, the leading Wesleyan bounder, was able to come up with only...
Said: "We had lots of servants in baggy silk trousers-one was an ex-eunuch." In the simple, gruffly tender relationship between the stray orphan and the fugitive bounder, Boy combines the charm of Huck Finn with the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
...field; Tom Tresh raced in, got a glove on the ball--and couldn't hold it. Curt Flood then rapped a tailor-made double play ball to Yank second baseman Bobby Richardson--who couldn't hold it either. Lou Brock singled Gibson home, and then Bill White hit a bounder to Richardson which should have ended the inning with a double play, but the relay to first was slow and Brock scored from third...
...Dominick's in West Hollywood is it-not because of the atmosphere, which is early roadhouse, or the cuisine, which could have been learned in a vending machine, but because Dominick is an irascible bounder who only lets in people he likes. Everybody wants to be liked by Dominick, but he stands in his doorway before a cavern of empty tables and announces that he is booked solid. He lets Jack Lemmon in, and Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jim Aubrey, president...
...literary tea is laced with George's rum ruminations on himself and his family's past. In the space it takes many a modern writer just to clear his throat, Scott sketches in a man's whole lifetime and draws in detail a haunting character-part bounder, part victim, part humble appraiser of how badly he has played the hand that life has chosen to deal him. Blessed or not, Scott seems to say, the poor in spirit will never inherit the earth. But, possessed of the fewest illusions about themselves, they alone can afford to view...