Word: cage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Petersen (honorable mention to Jon Garrity), he was the runaway winner of the "Hard Luck Harry" Award, B.C.'s Paul Skid-played Nadia Comaneci in the cage, stopping almost everything in sight, and several shots that couldn't be seen...
...disagree with your labeling the San Antonio News an ignoble fish wrapper. The News would probably make a good bird-cage liner or emergency umbrella. I prefer to confine my reading to the San Antonio Light and, of course, TIME...
...plot of land, and he met a bookie who would let him play the ponies at $2,000 a crack. But, he claimed, he "found out that it was a scam [a con game] and had the guy beat up. They broke one side of his rib cage. He had taken me for a bunch...
...author's prose style is some times clouded by a purple hue, but his in sights are as clear as those in Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell. In one chapter Selzer defines the heart as "purest theatre . . . throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. It quickens in response to our emotions. And all the while we feel it, hear it, even - we, its stage and its audience." The liver is that "great maroon snail," of whose existence one is hardly aware until it malfunctions. "No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives...
...most dramatic, and probably most serious, loss is at the high jump position. To paraphrase Erich Segal (a Briggs Cage regular in his day), what can you say about a 22-year old, record-breaking high jumper who graduates? Mel Embree broke every record in the book in his three years of jumping and only missed going to the Olympics when Jim Barrineau leaped 7 ft. 4 1/2 in. on his last attempt at the U.S. trials (Barrineau failed to place in Montreal...