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Field goal range. Victory. The catbird seat. Thoughts now turned to (a) hanging on to the ball and (b) giving the kicker the best possible situation and field placement to do his thing. The offense had three plays to get the ball in the middle of the field for kicker Gary Bosnic...
...garden and another that has nested under Andrew Jackson's magnolia. The mockingbirds are getting into the concord grapes, which are just turning juicy in the arbor. There are in fact about 16 kinds of permanent bird residents on the White House's 18 acres-catbird, house finch, downy woodpecker, fish crow, rock dove, gold finch. And another 38 kinds drop by for visits. A couple of Mallard scooted in to see the South Fountain. Evenden, lurking in the bushes, spotted itinerant yellow-throats, towhees, pewees, chickadees, ruby-throated hummingbirds, red-eyed vireos and a red-breasted nuthatch...
...likes to go duck and quail hunting. At night his wife of 42 years, Josephine, sometimes reads histories, biographies or spy thrillers to him. They have four grown children, two of them lawyers. Powell is invariably soft-spoken and nonflamboyant. Even when, last week, he found himself in the catbird seat...
...pinstripes seemed to be in the catbird seat once Figueroa settled down. After leaving seven men stranded on base in the space of two innings, the Yankees shelled Royal reliever Andy Hassler for two more runs in the bottom of the sixth, making...
After trailing 14-10, Hines's shooting binge eased the Crimson into the catbird seat, 16-14. The Crimson was still treading on velvet when the half closed out with the visitors...