Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...descending, Harvard southpaw Tom Hurley took a 4-2 lead to the mound to start the seventh inning. He needed to retire only the Eagles ninth, leadoff and second batters to avenge the Crimson's loss in the day's opener...
Essential to the Crimson's season will be the performance of their freshman pitchers, and Florida will provide a chance for these rookie prospects to earn a spot in the Crimson rotation. Jeff Mitchell, Shawn Fibkins, and Chris Kenaszchuk are all prime candidates to see time on the mound...
Soviet enterprise has taken a macabre turn: vacation trips to the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl. Kievturist, a Ukrainian tour operator, is organizing excursions to the forbidden zone surrounding the entombed remains of the world's worst nuclear accident. Truly adventurous visitors can tour the massive concrete mound where the wreckage of the reactor is buried, a town built for the workers who cleaned up after the accident and a nuclear-waste dump...
...same hazards apply to speed-reading. Yes, we are bedeviled each day by a mound of papers, and we need to have some way of getting swiftly at the vitals of letters or articles or presentations. But the habit of skimming is too easily carried over to creative reading. Few things are more rewarding than the way the mind can hover over a luminous paragraph or even a phrase, allowing it to light up the imagination. The way the mind transforms little markings on paper into images is one of the highest manifestations of human uniqueness...
...spartan shopping strips to swank malls, now cater to tourists and travelers. Many are sited just off major interstate highways or close to vacation spots. "For these prices, I don't mind fighting the freeway," exults Houston housewife Laura Freeman, two small kids in tow, as she balances a mound of towels selling for $2.99 a pound at the Lone Star State Factory Stores mall near Galveston...