Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Columbia's other star, outfielder Mike Wilhite, is a legitimate pro prospect, a rare breed around the Eastern League. Wilhite led the circuit in hitting last season with a .448 average, and although he has tailed to only a .305 mark so far this spring, the senior from Oakland has jacked eight home runs in 24 games to break the school record held by some guy named Gehrig...
...there is nothing potentially more explosive than teasing a fatalistic Red Sox fan--a hungry breed of sports fan, a bug-eyed baseball lunatic who in the summer months follows every pitch and grabs for every grain of hope with the tacit, suppressed knowledge in the back of his mind that around August, no matter how many home runs Jim Rice hits, or how awesome Yaz is out there in left--the cold hand of fate will sweep down from New York or Baltimore or Detroit and topple all the dominos...
...such good deeds often go unnoticed. What works against lawyers generally is that they are at once indispensable and intimidating?a combination guaranteed to breed bitter resentment. "Lawyers have become secular priests," says Fred Button, a White House aide in the Kennedy Administration and now a successful Washington, D.C., attorney. They are, agrees Berkeley Law Dean Sanford Kadish, masters of "a mysterious art form to which the layman is not privy, with mumbo jumbo going on." The heart of the art, of course, is the impenetrable language that lawyers use, sometimes at great length (a direct outgrowth of the English...
...Caribbean rhythms and percussion with American folk-rock pop, and it wasn't just pop to begin with. Buffett grew up in Mobile, Alabama, listening to the same Hank Williams and Jimmy Rodgers classics that whelped the Grand Ole Opry Empire of the Nashville Moguls, a philistine crew who breed for violin affinity, not for rasp'n'roll or the truckstop gut-wrench. But the Buffett derivation went the other way, toward the fringes. Lotta room out there on the fringes: Willie Nelson and Waylon "I Don't Think Hank Done It Thisaway" Jennings were there already, Texas, noses...
There is no surer or happier sign of spring and the surge of new life. In the lush bluegrass pastures of Kentucky, new foals test their spindly legs behind those famous white rail fences. In another annual rite, the great stables breed Thoroughbred stallions and mares imported from around the world...