Word: leaguered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City in the year of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' 1492 voyage, the week of the dedication of Columbus Circle.) Young Chris grew up in a modest duplex in a tough part of Phoebus, played a good game of sand-lot baseball and dreamed of becoming a big-leaguer. To this day, his most prized possession is a baseball he had autographed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig one hot summer day when he was nine years old. In high school, he handled mathematics with such facility that he decided to study engineering−in case he should fail...
...many respects, the operation was similar to the arm-saving surgery performed on 12-year-old Little Leaguer Everett Knowles Jr.* at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital (TIME, June 8, 1962). The major difference was that Everett's arm had been torn off by a train. Pennell's hand had been neatly severed-a great aid for the North Carolina surgeons. For that bit of luck, Pennell had himself to thank; just before the accident he had sharpened the ax that...
...odds against just any amateur's getting one are computed at 6,000 to 1. But the lightning can strike willy-nilly. Last year's initiates included an 84-year-old retired businessman from California (No. 8 iron, 110-yd. hole), a nine-year-old Little Leaguer from North Carolina (No. 3 iron, 157-yd. hole), and a Texas housewife who was eight months pregnant when she dubbed a No. 6-iron shot into the cup on a 125-yd. hole...
...Leaguer, however, must see New York as a college of electives, extending to him the paradoxical gifts of privacy and participation, of loneliness and union with the ultimate queerness of humankind. This is because New York is so constructed as to soak up everything without (necessarily) inflicting a single event on its denizens. Which strikes us as odd, considering it is the worst-run metropolis in the world, or at least the most unmanageable...
Cosmo Iacavazzi, Princeton's star full-back, was the only Ivy Leaguer chosen as a first-team All-American. Iacavazzi was chosen as, of all things, a defensive back...