Word: choking
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...prove his ability, Nieder put the shot 65 ft. 10 in., and learned the following morning that he had been moved up on the squad in place of Dave Davis, who has a bad wrist. Said Nieder: "I just wanted to show that I don't choke...
Even then he was a strange mixture of rabid rebel and good companion-the original Angry Young Man, full of both compassion and wit. The war with the Kaiser was none of his concern: his battle was with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to death of a miner's lung disease and never offered a tuppence in workmen's compensation. In 1929 he burst upon Parliament "like some great disturbance of nature" as the new member from Ebbw Vale...
Glove Men. Richards readily admitted that his team has no super star, no candidate for the batting title. "We try to choke off their runs, keep them down and let them give us the game," he said. "Our style is like punting and praying in football, or just hitting it back in tennis. You've got to start with the defense. If you can't get the other fella out, you can't win the game, no matter how many runs you score...
...great Walter Hagen, who used to deflate a field of opponents by grandly inquiring, "Well, who's going to be second?" Among the last of the sly oldtimers is E. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, 50. With a younger player watching, Harrison will occasionally choose the wrong iron for a shot, choke upon the grip, curb his swing and loft the ball to the green. His opponent, noting the club Harrison has used, will select the same one, blithely swing full-out?and send his ball soaring far beyond the green into a trap...
...Darrall Imhoff, who averages only 11.8 points per game. Says Imhoff: "Sure, I like making buckets, but I really swell up when I block a shot. If you bat the ball down a guy's throat on his favorite shot, he's going to choke up a little. And he just might not try that shot again...