Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult making the adjustment," Bernhard said. "Hell, they even had me playing third base in high school. I was the only left-handed third baseman in Nevada. The first time they bunted to me. I threw the damn thing into left field...
Western High School, which Bernhard attended, used to have a monopoly on Nevada sports, winning five state championships in his senior year. "There were only nine other high schools in the entire state, so the record isn't as impressive as it seems," he said. "Still, we used to travel 500 miles to play a baseball game...
...Kerouac, but you must read the rest of his introduction. The pictures are pure existential moments, complex images, not pretty, but reflecting something in each case which shouts with mysterious intensity, in another language altogether, "There are no words!" In one of his pictures, a woman in an Elko, Nevada, casino reaches for the dice so intently her arm becomes, with slight blur, a serpent's tongue. Frank understood best the absolute respect the still image must have for reality, and the duty the photographer has to confront people in the reality of their daily lives...
...nickname "The Old Master," was the most outstanding of that group. However, even as lightweight champion, he could get bouts only by accepting the short end of the purse or by agreeing to take a dive or both. His last major bout was in 1906 in Goldfield, Nevada, against a young white hope named "Battlin'" Nelson. The bout was the first promotion of the notorious Tex Rickard, at that time a local saloon owner. Rickard, who was to become the most successful promoter of the era, put up a purse of $34,000 in gold coins and displayed...
...Nevada...