Word: forearmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago father, home early one afternoon last autumn, opened the door of his son's bedroom and found himself staring at a terrifying tableau. His son, a 15-year-old vocational-school student, was sitting there, one forearm bared, a hypodermic syringe in his hand. Another boy was holding a teaspoon over the flame of a cigarette lighter. Both the syringe and the teaspoon contained heroin...
...eyesight is not the secret of his success. The ability to stand up to a fast, close pitch without flinching comes first, according to Ted, and eyesight is next. The third most important factor, Ted thinks, is "power, and the power is all here, in the wrist and forearm. Timing comes last. If you have the power you'll get the timing naturally...