Word: hops
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...game. "If you ever lose the little boy in you," shudder the fat men and the bald men in the knickers and the beanies, "well. . ." Well, it's over, that's all. You can lose a step, even two. You can lose the hop on your fastball, though you may have to learn a knuckler. But if you ever grow up, you can't be a Lost Boy any more. Sorry, those are the rules of never-never land...
...years before his death last January, Smith lost some of the hop on his high hard one. Unable to get out to the ballpark as much, he tried to compensate with guile and memory. By then most of the old sports mob-Joe Louis, Knute Rockne, Grantland Rice and the incomparable saloonkeeper Toots Shor-had been written up on the obituary page. Smith's own goodbyes, collected in To Absent Friends, are enough to make an umpire cry. One of the most poignant was composed for the sportswriter John Lardner: "This is a loss to the living, to every...
Coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), new national civil defense plans announced recently concentrate on "crisis relocation"--evacuating 145 million people from 450 sites expected to be principal targets in a Soviet nuclear attack. The refugees would receive instructions under the federal plan to hop in their cars and drive en masse to various rural "host communities...
...embattled Falkland Islands. Members of Britain's Parachute Regiment moved rapidly out of their hard-won corner of East Falkland near the settlement of Port San Carlos, taken by invasion only a week earlier, and descended 20 miles south near the settlement of Darwin. Using helicopters to hop across the boggy ground, the crack British troops confronted an Argentine garrison once estimated at about 600. There were reports of sharp fighting, and then the British Defense Ministry tersely announced that Her Majesty's troops had captured both Darwin and the neighboring settlement of Goose Green, site of an important airfield...
...only a short hop from skillful operation of a video game to learning fundamentals of programming. Says M.I.T. Sociologist Sherry Turkic, 33, who has been studying the youthful computer culture for five years: "The line between game playing and programming is very thin. Programming takes what is powerful about games-this articulation of knowledge, this learning about strategy-and carries it to a higher level of power...