Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Houston has the league's best new pitching in Mike Cuellar, Larry Dierker, Claude Ravmond, and Dave Giusti, while Philadelphia has the best of the oldtimers -- Jim Bunning, Larry Jackson, Dick Ellsworth, and Dick Hall. Youth will tell as the Astros begin their climb...
Five Breaks. Bull riding requires no spurring. Bulls are mad enough as it is. What is needed is balance, and raw courage-the courage to climb aboard a heaving, spinning animal that outweighs you by nearly a ton, and stay there for 8 sec. Mahan readily admits to a natural distaste for bulls: "No horse, no matter how mean, will deliberately charge you after he throws you. But a Brahma bull will; he'll come right after you, hoping...
...likely to fall. The trouble was that it required fantastic strength to hold the egg for any length of time. Le coach, therefore, put les skiers through an exhaustive and exhausting daily ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand on their shoulders, forced them to climb endless flights of stairs, descend innumerable mountains to strengthen thigh muscles. On the slopes, he was the original martinet: barking orders to assistants through a walkie-talkie, charting every speed-slowing bump or hollow, taking the temperature of the snow with a rectal thermometer to be certain that precisely...
Burns, on the other hand, picked up the game from his freshman roommate who invited him to sit in on a low stake Friday night game. He developed a feel for the game playing for pennies but then the stakes began to climb from a quarter to a fifty cent limit on each bet, then to a halfpot--where a bet can equal half the money on the table--and finally to pot limit. In pot limit games, which start with a quarter on the table, several hundred dollars can change hands in one evening. Burns had moved beyond...
...some adroit tricks, since the action takes place in a house where the light fuse has blown. To let the audience see what is happening, the stage lights are actually turned on, and the performers have to act as though they are in the dark. Lynn's butter-legged climb up and down the stairs, the way she pours drinks to overflowing, and her well-timed near-misses as she staggers around the room are hilariously engineered...