Word: orne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ridiculous but champions the sane and normal. His protagonists are ordinary guys desperately trying to fend off the world's idiocies and evils long enough to define themselves and do the decent thing. They rarely succeed completely. Solitary Baseball. The fourth-generation writer in his family, Sheed was ?orn in London, the son of Maisie Ward and Frank Sheed (of the Catholic publishing firm Sheed & Ward). When he was nine, his family moved to Torresdale, Pa., a town not unlike the setting for Pennsylvania Gothic. Finding the literary atmosphere at home oppressive," he plunged passionately into sports. The only...
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