Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubling, almost embarrassing, that Harvard fields a top-flight team in a professional sport. This is heresy, I know. But hear me out. I have my reasons, three of them...
...weekends ago, the talk among Harvardians returning from spring break was almost exclusively of Providence. Didja hear we lost in the finals? Didja hear Fusco was out? Didja care...
...baseball heritage is easy to trace. Etha Talbert, Gooden's paternal grandmother, swore it was spiritual. She died this year, convinced that Dwight was "his granddaddy come back alive." The boy never knew Uclesee Gooden but loved to hear his father's energetic accounts of the angular, strong-legged, long-armed Georgia pitcher whose fastball had been consigned by the times to a black sandlot in Albany. " 'Could he bring it, Dad?' Dwight would say to me, and I'd laugh. 'Yeah, he could bring...
...math major, Johnson had played a tidy second base for Earl Weaver's best teams in Baltimore. During the '60s, before computers were cool, Johnson wrote a program designed, as he put it, to "optimize" the Oriole lineup. Weaver never got around to installing it, but he loved to hear his second baseman talk. To Johnson there are no "hitting streaks" or "hot hands." There are "favorable chance deviations." The Mets' general manager, Frank Cashen, also came from Baltimore. He is considered conservative, though ( a better word would be careful. While Cashen tilts especially toward caution in the development...
...further hindered by language barriers and international red tape. The court made 24 trips to take testimony in West Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland and France. Recalls Santiapichi: "With almost a hundred witnesses in court and defendants who spoke in three different languages, we were slowed down." To hear one witness in the Netherlands, the session had to be conducted in Turkish, Dutch, German and Italian. Quipped a visiting Australian judge at the sight of translators for the Bulgarian and Turkish defendants: "This is the trial of Babel...