Word: near-misses
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...April 1985, when Ripken sprained his ankle on a pick-off play in the third inning. Although he continued playing, his ankle was badly swollen and discolored after the game. Fortunately, the Orioles had scheduled an exhibition game against the Naval Academy the next day. The second near-miss came as a result of a bench-clearing melee with the Seattle Mariners during game No. 1,790 in June of '93. Ripken twisted his knee, and when he woke up the next morning, he couldn't put his weight on it. He told his wife Kelly he might...
...after that near-miss, a 26-year-old former Army soldier bought a Chinese-made Norinco assault rifle in Colorado Springs...
...from moment to moment, The Great Depression brims with striking images and insights. If it lacks the poetry of The Civil War or the narrative cohesiveness of Eyes on the Prize, the material seems fresher and has more complex echoes for our own era. The near-miss campaign of socialist Upton Sinclair for Governor of California in 1934, the subject of one full episode, is like an event from prehistoric times; it can't happen here anymore. Yet the account of Hollywood's slick media campaign to defeat him might have come from a 1993 campaign adviser's handbook...
Miller, with a lot of help from his friends, is a far-darting hit man. One minute he's in Maryland staging a near-miss assault on Ryan's family, the next he's in a Libyan terrorist-training camp. Back and forth across the Atlantic he wings, building up his frequent-flyer miles but somehow not building quite the anxiety you'd think his presence in the world ought to generate...
Plenty of would-be stars spend years angling for -- and just missing -- a national television appearance. For Myra Kristine Palmer, a near-miss with TV fame came very early in life. In fact, she had just been born...