Word: hops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...towns and cities along the way, crowds of well-wishers turned out to cheer him on. In Toronto, 10,000 people greeted him. It was impossible not to admire his gutsiness and determination. He ran with a kind of hop and a skip with his prosthetic leg, on good days covering up to 30 miles. He ran through rain, snow and hailstones during the early weeks, then endured the sizzling afternoon sun of June and July. At one point, a welder did spot repairs on the artificial limb...
...sits down at a large kitchen table. "Trash gets taken out twice a week." Jackets off, white nonregulation T shirts and bright suspenders prominently displayed, 15 to 20 male cadets lounge in a colonel's big staff house. Across the way in Eisenhower Hall the autumn cadet hop is about to get under way. Spirits are very dampened by the afternoon's 55-0 football game, the latest in a string of defeats for the once proud Army team. Why are these cadets not sharing the misery at the dance? "What's the use?" says one, dejected...
With one out in the eighth, however, Blaine Carroll scampered home with the winning run when shortstop Bauer flipped a bad hop double play ball into centerfield, giving Stewart an undeserved loss for his efforts...
Doyle needed just three minutes to dispose of Columbia in the seventh and complete his shutout, slipping third strikes past Ray Stukes and Blattman and forcing Mark Hanewich to one-hop to Kelley at second in an inning representative of the entire afternoon...
...voice said over the dispatcher's radio. The dispatcher poked a pencil into Marty. He rocked back to the floor, grabbed his tin and a piece of paper, and ambled out of the trailer. "Yew comin' too boy?" he said to me with a harkening drawl. "Awright, hop...