Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't matter terribly anyway, since you are going to appeal and get this obviously incorrect verdict overturned. This will give the impression that you have somehow not lost the case after all. Having created this spark, do not allow it to go out for lack of attention. Fan it like crazy...
...batsman, and its lone run -- along with Harvard's only two errors -- in three final frames that threatened to turn the game around. At one point in the seventh, Peters was ready to be relieved, but Coach Norm Shepard stayed with the big righthander and saw him fan the final two batters with two men on in the ninth...
...quickly," Mailer writes, and almost everything about the man disproves the Establishment's caricature of him as a fire-breathing, bad-mouthing ogre, whose only literary impulse is to fuel his own ego. Mailer is kind to children, careful to remember acquaintances' names, and polite even to the boorish fan who traps him after a reading with a five-minute, existential question...
Ever since Mozart's Cosi Fan tutte was produced at Leverett House two years ago, musical theatre at Harvard has suffered from a bad case of escalation. L'Histoire du Soldat, Don Giovanni; and The Marriage of Figaro followed-in quick succession, and one shuddered to think where Harvard musicians would go from there...
...sportswriters tended to regard him as an oversized goon who could dunk the ball but rated zero on team play. WILT SCORES 50, WARRIORS LOSE, the headlines often read. The crowds were down on him, too. "I can't love a 7-ft. 1-in. loser," said a fan at the time. So two years ago, San Francisco gladly traded Wilt to the Philadelphia 76ers. Last year the Warriors fired Wilt's coach, Alex Hannum, after a front-office squabble, and he also wound up in Philadelphia. Good riddance? Undeniably-for Chamberlain and Hannum...