Word: mounds
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...their only National League pennant in 1984, and held the club strikeout record. The public may remember him best as the hurler who gave up Pete Rose's record 4,192nd career hit in 1985. In his typically offbeat way, Show simply sat down on the pitcher's mound while the crowd went wild...
...well as other views of his action in foreign policy, through the breakup of the Soviet empire and the unification of Germany, will be in the book that he and former aide Brent Scowcroft are doing. It is hard, confining work for Bush. He lifts a 350-page mound of manuscript off his small desk and notes that on top are two pages of comments and suggestions by his Knopf editors. He sighs...
Give the idea 20 years. It's 2014, and Marion B. Gammill, president of the United North American Free Trading States trots out to the mound at Dodger Stadium to throw the first ball for Game 1 of the World Series between L.A. and the new expansion team from Kuala Luampur...
...artist as friends, lovers, daughters. But the nature of that relationship doesn't appear in the painting, and everyone is treated with the same relentless scrutiny of physical fact, so that a chin or an elbow acquires the same intensity, as painting, as a breast or a pubic mound. The results have much to do with modeling -- physical manipulation, as though the body were being reconstructed in the medium of paint, crowded with bumps and hollows, and bursting with life...
Spracklin taught Butt an approach to familiarizing his crew with the stroke which maximized the work done by the oar blade in the water based on this principle: If a blade is forced into the water hard enough, Spracklin said, a mound of water forms in front of the blade that exerts a backwards force on the blade and thereby holds it firmly in the water...