Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book's interviews unveil Kerouac's immense sensitivity to and faith in human beings. Carolyn Cassidy claimed that "Jack fell in love with every woman he saw," intimating that he was always worried about hurting his friends and the women he knew. Thus, we are shown a very shy man. Some of Kerouac's childhood friends say that he did not have many girlfriends during high school because his "shyness was always taken as conceit...
...Torrez, the game fell rather heavily in his lap. The former Yankee, while making millions and winning but 16 in his first season with Boston, was out there attempting to justify his place in the free agent system, attempting to justify his ability to pitch well in the clutch, attempting to beat the best pitcher in baseball. Somehow, all that pressure seemed right...
...First it fell on Carl Yastrzemski. If we extend the Peloponnesian War metaphor, it's hard to deny that Yaz has forever been Achilles in Boston, sulking and slugging for 18 years, first through determination then idolatry. No one will ever doubt Yastrzemski's indispensibility on the baseball field, and no one was surprised when his adrenalin-powered shot found its way around the right field foul poll and into the seats for the game's first run in the second. And when Yaz popped to third for the final out of the game, myths may have been shattered about...
...though we waited all along for gifted Jim Rice to give us the game-winning moonshot that we all took for granted, the spotlight incidently fell on an athlete who knows its beam all too well...
Yastrzemski chose to swing at the Goose's second offering, a tailing, low inside fastball, and the result was a fluffernut popup that fell easily in Graig Nettles' glove for the final...