Word: nute
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local pinball action, Ian Smith set an unofficial record when two consecutive balls slid down the "nute" without registering a single point. The machine, hospitable to its Harvard guest, granted the junior guard an extra ball each occasion...
Still, a divine plan is scarcely visible in Bol's excruciating thinness, which combines with a perfectly erect bearing to accentuate his height and make Bol, in the phrase of Teammate Tom McMillen, "kind of regal." On ankles like wrists, "Nute" moves with the pumping action of machinery and the caution of a man on stilts. "Kip Keino," Center Jeff Ruland calls to him from behind. "Ah-ha-ha," Bol says...
...decades cannot improve." His affectionate sketches provide a full granary of bemused narratives about favorite Wobegonians, including Father Emil, who blesses animals on the lawn of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church; the Statue of the Unknown Norwegian, which sprouts grass from an unusual place; and Angler Dr. Nute, a retired dentist who tells the sunfish, "Open wide . . . This may sting a little...