Word: craziest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilhelm, "that I wasn't fast enough to get by. I had read about Dutch Leonard and the kind of junk he was throwing for the Senators, and I set out to see if I couldn't throw some too." Hoyt Wilhelm's "junk" is the craziest knuckle ball in baseball today. It floats up to the plate, dances tantalizingly before batters' eyes like a butterfly, then breaks sharply and unpredictably. One night last week his knuckler broke all over the place, kept the bug-eyed New York Yankees flailing futilely. For Wilhelm...
...shadow of the el," he says. "I was thrown out of school several times, and in junior high school I was voted the least likely to succeed. Mostly I was thrown out of school because I liked to cut class and turn over rocks in Van Cortlandt Park. The craziest things crawled...
...aircraft industry any time he decides to quit the service. On top of that, the sergeant, who is a line chief, has the satisfaction of doing a job that is vital to his country's survival, and on top of that he has the pleasure of rigging the craziest kite a grown-up boy ever had: the $9,000,000, 400,000-lb., eight-jet, 650-m.p.h...
...were sparse, but they seemed to come as discoveries. They exemplified the message that his later works elaborated: that if you make words only out of what you know to be true, and if these words are more often short than long, concrete than abstract, active than passive, the craziest-seeming truth may become clear...
From a fellow inmate in the hospital, where the craziest are happiest, Jim learns the reverse twist of an old common-law principle as applied to madness: "They don't have to prove that you are. You have to prove that you're not." Trying to prove his sanity, Jim nearly topples off the brink of reason. He is pushed toward the edge by the inquisitions of the psychiatrists, and by the maddening knowledge that Ann will let him rot in asylums unless he returns to her arms alone. At last, all yearnings for independence crushed, any chances...