Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to get right into this game," sophomore right fielder Mike Hill said. "I noticed that the times we struck out, we were leaning forward on our front foot. We were kind of anxious to get hits like yesterday. We just had to remember to lean back a little and wait for the right pitch...
...evident again last weekend, as Sokolof worked far into the night preparing a full-page ad scheduled to run this week in major newspapers. The ad extols the virtues of McDonald's new hamburgers and advises Wendy's and Burger King that they too had better take the lean route. From deep in America's heartland, Sokolof is ready to strike again...
Some adults may think the four lean, mean green fighting machines--named for Renaissance artists--are more likely to spark a child's imagination than the run-of-the-mill musclebound superhero. But 73 educators from 19 states who responded to the survey said kids emulate the turtles' karate chopping and pizza chomping, but little else...
...That recruiting season was just a lean year," said Tomassoni, who directly recruited every present Crimson skater during his eight-year tenure as assistant, then associate coach...
...Dennis Overbye has discovered a fiendishly clever way of tricking readers into understanding cosmology, the study of the entire universe. Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts -- exotic particles, black-body radiation and the like -- Overbye draws intimate portraits of such people as Allan Sandage, once a "lean, Jimmy Stewartish" youngster and now the grand old man of cosmology; David Schramm, a Porsche-driving physicist and ex-wrestler; and Yakov Zeldovich, a sort of "Zorba the Cosmologist," who dazzled colleagues with his intuitive genius and women with his charm. By describing the quirky personalities and brilliant minds of these...