Word: catching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paid to do; so too with our athletes. We pay our baseball players to entertain us, to inspire us with feats of self-transcendence, to do the things that we can only dream of doing -- like hitting a 100-m.p.h. fast ball or leaping over fences to make the catch that saves the day. By those standards Boggs is one of the greatest wonders in the game today, whose level of consistent excellence would be the envy of anyone in any job. The vicissitudes of his private life are as irrelevant as his habit of eating chicken before every game...
...Boggs, though so much less important, feel so much more plangent than the rejection of Tower? Perhaps because we place more faith in our athletic superstars, and expect more faithfulness in return. Heroism is famously a game of inches: get a little too close to a role model, catch him at the backstage entrance, and the loss can be desolating. Admiration is itself a form of suspended disbelief; turning a blind eye can be as much an act of forgiveness as turning the other cheek. We cannot afford to see our heroes at too close a distance -- not least because...
Cleary by-passed silent Bright Center and headed across the river to catch a little NCAA first-round action at Boston College's Kelley Rink. The Eagles eliminated Bowling Green to advance to the quarterfinals at Michigan State this weekend...
...case "once again shows that the United States is not going to let up our efforts to catch these individuals who are supplying drugs to the United States," U.S. Attorney Robert W. Genzman said. "We feel that the pressure has got to be kept on regardless of how many indictments come out in the United States against members of the cartel...
WHAT exactly happened to two Black Harvard students around 9 p.m. last Tuesday night remains muddled. Witnesses say the pair had run to catch a University shuttle bus when, upon boarding, several police cars blocked the van and a Black police officer shined a flashlight in their faces and ordered them to get off. The pair were then searched without explanation and, after officers found nothing, were left without notice of why they were stopped, the students...