Word: brashly
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Then there was Belinsky, the first real "kook" the majors have seen in quite a while. The Angels' rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...
Belinsky was unbelievably wild all spring, giving up three or four walks an inning, heaving as many wild pitches as strikes, and feeding sprawling hitters a straight dirt diet. Through storms of abuse, he maintained his brash self-confidence, insisting that he was just worn out from a heavy load of winter ball...
Then there was Belinsky, the first real "kook" the majors have seen in quite a while. The Angels' rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...
Belinsky was unbelievably wild all spring, giving up three or four walks an inning, heaving as many wild pitches as strikes, and feeding sprawling hitters a straight dirt diet. Through storms of abuse, he maintained his brash self-confidence, insisting that he was just worn out from a heavy load of winter ball...
...Israel ended Palestine's role as banker to the Middle East, free-enterprising Lebanon has been inundated by a flood of investment money from oil-rich Saudi princes and from wealthy Egyptians, Syrians and Iraqis frightened by the increasingly socialist policies of their own governments. Riding this tide, brash, resolute Yusuf Bedas in ten years of frenetic expansion has built Intra from scratch into Beirut's largest bank, with capital of $10,000,000 and 16 branches in Europe and the Arab world...