Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deal." When agents urged him to cash in on his success financially, he would answer, exuberantly, "I play baseball." And the fans loved him, they had never seen anything like him. Tall, gawky, like a stork out of water, Fidrych stepped on the field with a flurry of limbs, hair and mutterings. Not since Dizzy Dean bamboozled his way into the national heart had any one personality so captured the imagination of baseball...
...preparation for the pilgrimage, the male pilgrim must wash his body, shed his everyday dress and wear two pieces of unsewn sheets: one around the waist and the other over the shoulders. The female pilgrim is required to wear a long dress and cover her hair. The pilgrimage is considered the most fortunate moment of one's life, the time when one can travel to the Blessed City asking for God's forgiveness, hoping for complete forgiveness of one's sins and transgressions. Thus men's sheets and women's dresses are usually white, signifying a purer rebirth...
...Mecca the pilgrims end their state of "ihram" by a symbolic shortening of the hair. They resume their commitment to the present and the particular once more. They revert to their own dress. Many travel to Medina, the second most revered city in Islam, where Mohammed established the first Islamic state and where he is buried in a corner of the "Nabawi" Mosque...
Aronson and Medenica supervise the fund-raising and mechanical aspects of the team, but the really essential member is 23-year-old Herne, whose hair-raising driving exploits earned him the sobriquet "Hero" at the beginning of the season. A soft-spoken native of Williamstown, Mass., Herne is so devoted to the sport that he poured all of his savings into the team. Currently, Herne's finances are so tight that he is forced to sleep on a friend's couch. He is now looking for a job to help meet expenses for next year. Herne says that like every...
Sometimes. Alone. Between. Periods. Yet "ands" are cheap: "And Mr. Arland ask ing him why he hadn't seen him having a pint for some time. And the barber stopped cutting my hair and looked up at the ceiling." These repetitions may charm at first as a rendition of the maundering heard in Irish pubs; stretched out over a wad of pages, the trick grows thin. Even the little poems that conclude chapters seem limp: "And/ I loved/ Her." When Lennon and McCartney wrote something like that, they provided music...