Word: cracker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those errors, two-out miscues by first-cracker Gary Frechette and third baseman Bill O'Leary that sandwiched around Schepers's single, each scored a Crimson baserunner and helped the visitors take a 4-0 lead after three frames...
Tony, Benny's son (the bildungs roman continues), travels across the country, stopping briefly in Kansas and seducing a young blond waitress in the cornfields by telling her, "This country is my Cracker Jack Box, and you're my prize," in typical Bakshi Americana style...
Those who came wished they had not. Harvard has played far worse games this season. But unlike the disasters at B.C. and RPI, there were no shining lights in the darkness, no surprises in the cracker jacks. Just dull, somnolent, uninspired hockey for sixty minutes, and when it had ended, the Crimson's eighth loss in its last nine games...
...years since, over 150 doctoral theses (in French and Japanese as well as English) have tried to explain exactly what those dozen splendidly provoking essays meant. This three-day gathering, half birthday party, half academic cracker-barrel session, has added a second question: Why do the Agrarians, with their crusty prophecies and affirmations, still sound so pertinent, half of a very non-agrarian century later...
...Carter era wore on, Blount felt betrayed. He would not forgive his fellow Southerner for letting Congress, the Soviets, the Iranians and that killer rabbit make him look foolish. Why, he wonders, couldn't the President be more like his brother, a real, no-nonsense redneck? "The first Cracker President should have been a mixture of Jimmy and Billy," Blount reckons, "a cobbler of Billy's basic blackberries oozing up into and through Jimmy's cut-to-specifications crust . . . forming a nice-and-awful compound like life in Georgia...