Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world has finally begun to catch up with "Barb" McClintock. The Nobel Prize Committee hailed her once obscure work as "one of the two great discoveries of our times in genetics," the other being the 1953 discovery, by James Watson and Francis Crick, of the double-helix structure of DNA. In 82 years of Nobel history, just six other women have won honors in scientific categories; and only two of these were named alone, without fellow honorees: France's Marie Curie in 1911, for discovering radium and polonium, and Britain's Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964, for deciphering...
...this glory in place of the Chicago White Sox thanks largely to Roenicke, who batted .750 and hit an important home run in the American League playoffs. For his reward, he was benched the first two Series games with Philadelphia and displaced by Lowenstein, who made a marvelous catch in Game 1, hit a mighty homer in Game 2, and was replaced by Roenicke in Game 3. "I don't want to play the third game," said Lowenstein sensibly. "Steve Carlton is pitching." That is a typically reasonable reaction for an Oriole, especially Lowenstein, who never says...
...they should not return to Herod"? Brook's accent is more literary than historical, but even here he falters. Lewis Carroll's dream books of Alice are justly represented, but James Joyce's monumental portrait of the unconscious, Finnegans Wake, is accorded two lines. Joseph Heller (Catch-22) is indulgently granted six entries; the great dreamer Poe is given...
...that fits in at a very early stage of their training regimen. For other intercollegiate crews, who often have been training longer, it may be their only chance of the year to challenge the Crimson. For old crew teams the race is a reunion of sorts, a chance to catch up and once again race as a team. For the oldtimers who race in the veterans divisions, it is a chance to see just how old they have grown...
...transition from rowing in an eight to sculling in the Olympics may be his biggest roadblock. But his experience in the freshman crew encouraged him to try his hand in an event in which he has a ways to go to catch the cream of the crop, who are mostly five to 10 years older than...