Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real cause for hope lies with Peters and the strong hitting. "When we have Peters up there on the mound," said Shepard, "we can give anyone a fight...
...bleeds to death in a mound of white goose feathers. A truncated boy hobbles on leg stumps, begging a living from passersby. A Carmenesque singer wails her miseries in a dingy nightclub. An adolescent takes a 16-year-old wife and finds himself unable to consummate the marriage, while a crowd of townspeople gathers below the couple's window, hooting...
When the relatively unknown southpaw took the mound against powerful Navy in April 1962, Coach Norm Shepherd was not overly-optimistic about Del Rossi's ability to master the defending Eastern Intercollegiate champions...
This type of display prompted Shepherd to say, "Del Rossi was a brilliant sort of pitcher. You won't find any college pitcher who knew how to put into application the tools of pitching better than Del Rossi. He was not just a thrower out on the mound. He was an artist...
...sent his children to some of the nation's finest suburban public schools, owned a ten-room house filled with costly art objects. But he felt that he should be treating poor instead of rich patients. Now Kruger has quit Newton, moved to the Mississippi Delta hamlet of Mound Bayou (pop. 1,354), where he runs a federally financed clinic for impoverished Negroes, some of them literally starving. The move cost Kruger $15,000 of his own money, partly for the two trailers in which his family live on a muddy road at the edge of town. His wife...