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...stolidly harvesting wheat with their antiquated, clattering six-foot combines. The Norwegian bachelors were not impressed by modern 20-footers. Sure, you got done faster, but that just meant waiting longer till it was time to go to bed. This is a good laugh line, as close to a knee slapper as Keillor lets himself get in the monologues. But like his uncle Lew, he tells stories, not jokes, and he goes on to say that "the clatter brings back memories of old days of glory in the field when I was a boy among giants. My uncle lifted...
...been able to take some of it into his private collection, had he been around. According to the owner of the Rockport farm, Weitzman has stolen manure amounting to $600 over the past few years. When the professor was allegedly caught in the act, he was more than knee deep...
...most important moment of the game, however, came on a routine grounder in the bottom of the third, when sophomore Julia Kidder was injured covering a play at first base. Kidder, a consistent producer on offense and a versatile defender, hopped away from the bag holding her left knee and eventually left the field for X-rays...
...Dick Laird, 34, an investment banker from Washington who took up the sport two years ago: "My friends think we're out here with Rolls-Royces in the parking lot, but it's closer to rodeo. When you get right down to it, what's so elite about being knee-deep in horse dung?" --By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles and Sue Raffety/New York, with other bureaus
...right-hander unveiled a sharp leg-kick, a hard fastball, a change-up, and a knee-buckling curve one typically would not expect of the big bat hitting fifth in the lineup and fielding third...