Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to be heard. Gradually I learned by example that I had to be loud to be effective, not only vocally but also physically, contorting my body violently in order to sell each call. As one of my old coaches and fellow umpires would constantly remind me, the closer the call, the louder I had to yell, and the more authoritatively I had to gesture with my arms and legs...
Some readers will balk at these suggestions. They will tell us that the author has long since dropped dead, that no amount of careful study of words will get us any closer to the author's original meaning and that we might as well cut our losses and learn about ourselves. Ruskin might respond that these folks are not only mistaken, but proud besides. They ought to know their places; they ought to read to hear what experts have...
...have a car," D. told the man on the phone. "If it's not possible for me to get to the courthouse, can I be placed in a closer court...
...aiding an Arkansas cocaine ring. CHG folded those allegations, and worse, into its 1994 Clinton-hater tape The Clinton Chronicles. Falwell sold 60,000 of those tapes on television. CHG head PATRICK MATRISCIANA backs Falwell's claim that he didn't know of the payments, which Matrisciana says totaled closer to $100,000 and were made mostly to "researchers" or Clinton denouncers who have fallen on hard times. But while Matrisciana stands by many of the tape's allegations, Falwell is more equivocal. In 1994, says a spokesman, he thought, "Even if most of this is untrue, it deserves...
Last week's terse, 70-page report of the Marine inquiry into the Feb. 3 Italian ski-lift tragedy blamed the jet fighter's crew for the deaths of 20 people. But a closer read yields an interesting discrepancy. On the one hand, the flight of the EA-6B PROWLER was described as a hair-raising ride, in which the plane flew too low and too fast until the collision. On the other was the description of crew members, whom colleagues and commanders praised for their flying skills and professionalism. And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they...