Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country road on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 52, traced scores of cars and suspects before he caught up last year with Grover Jones, 56, an Indianapolis handyman. On the basis of Lee's mound of circumstantial evidence, Jones was indicted for second-degree murder, only to have the case wind up in a mistrial (TIME...
Samuel Beckett's Happy Days is a two-hour near-monologue delevered by Winnie, a 50-year-old woman who stands buried first up to her waist, then up to her neck, in a desert mound. She lives in a world people only by herself, her husband Willie, and her "things" -- a shopping bag full of knicknacks, and a parasol. With only Willie and the things as a points of reference, Winnie fills up her days, "happy days," with endless chatter and conscientious dips into...
...this has got to be the greatest bumper crop of rookies in history." Rigney has five rookies on his roster, and three of them have starting berths. Centerfielder Jose Cardenal, 21, is hitting .286, has stolen ten bases. Pitcher Marcelino Lopez, 21, is the ace of the Angels' mound staff with six victories, only three defeats, and Third Baseman Paul Schaal, 22, has cracked eight homers. At Kansas City, Manager Haywood Sullivan, a rookie himself, is frankly ecstatic over his prize find: Catcher Rene Lachemann. A one time bat boy for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Righthander Lachemann...
...Hawaii, a series of historical novellas are embedded in a meandering contemporary narrative. They run through 12,000 years and 909 pages and include disquisitions on mythology, theology, sociology, philosophy, ethics, political science and the history of religions. The contemporary narrative describes the excavation of Tell Makor, a fictitious mound in northwestern Israel. At each of 15 chronological levels, extending in time from 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1948, the archaeologists make a significant discovery, and for each discovery the author produces an illustrative tale...
Coach Norm Shepard will probably send junior John Scott to the mound against Brandeis, and save ace Jim McCandlish to pitch against the Crusaders in Splinter Stadium...