Word: mallet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rendition of the third symphony seems less calculated than that of its cousins, but the tension is not uniformly kept up through the inner movements, although I appreciate the subtle interplay between the inner voices that abounds in the second and third movements (including a wayward timpani mallet about 18 seconds into the second movement). While Haitink receives my praise for sustaining the momentum in the sublime cello theme of the third movement, I still wish that he had felt just a little more free to lose himself in its glory. Typically, he avoids excessively punching the off-beat accents...
Wellsley was to first team to fall to the precision mallet play of the Crimson's dynamic duo. The Kirkland junior and Cabot sophomore then outwicketed Navy, Mt. Holyoke and Smith soon after...
...seems an lawfully imperialistic game, croquet, when you play it amidst plan trees under the ten-degrees Latitude sun. I'd never played before, never even handled a wooden mallet or watched a ball roll Lazily through a wicket...
...simple game, a lot like miniature golf, only it's played on real grass, with a bigger, less rubbery ball and a clunky wooden mallet instead of a slim metal club. And with wickets and stakes instead of holes. And all-natural obstacles--no electronic windmills with flashing lights...
...role in a total-hip replacement, one of 500,000 such operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...