Word: field
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With shadows deepening, we pile into tour buses and drive to the Little League field, where Bradley again breaks the rules of presidential horn blowing. Eddie Evans, a black player from his childhood team, is by his side, but Bradley doesn't talk about the times the team traveled to play-off games and he fought to get Evans served in segregated restaurants and hotels. Instead he tells about getting picked off first base during a play-off in Ottumwa, Iowa. His team was eliminated, "and ever since then," he says with a smirk, "I've dreamed of going back...
...buses cruise past a field of beans--Bradley's farm--and pull into a lot beside the Mississippi. With the sun setting, the sky is etched with a calligraphy of pink clouds, their reflection a soft wash on the river surface. "Well, here it is," Bradley says with satisfaction. He describes boyhood rituals, times when he would "be still and listen to the wind in the cottonwood trees and watch the current carry what it had scoured from half a continent." He calls the river "a metaphor for democracy" and talks about the peace he finds here...
...million overhaul. But Major Michael Browne and 1st Lieut. Robert Straw found enough problems with the chopper to delay their departure a day. Then, 20 minutes after they took off in the late afternoon of May 23, 1997, they were killed when their aircraft plunged into a field 15 miles southeast of Dallas...
...This year, we're trying to create our own style and strategy of play," Larson said. "In the past, we've had a lot of superstars on the field who have directed our play, but this year, we'd really like to create [a style...
...women's team also performed well, maintaining the fourth-place finish they received the previous year in the same Invitational. Last fall, the women finished fourth of fifteen teams, and this year, the Crimson surpassed eight teams in the field of twelve...