Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ersek, one of the fastest players on the Harvard women's lacrosse team, wasn't used to being outrun...
Installation in the Baseball Hall of Fame guarantees immortality, not maturity. Mickey Mantle could switch-hit with phenomenal power, round the bases in less than 13 seconds and outrun fly balls to deepest Yankee Stadium. He could also injure himself in battles with water coolers and golf clubs, and / get so hung over that his eyes "were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing...
...scoreless match, a noisy squabble several hundred feet from the game erupted in gunfire. The gunmen charged onto the playing field, firing wildly at wit- nesses to their fight and anyone else who got in the way. Fowles, who once outran a quarter horse for 80 yards, could not outrun the bullets flying at him. Said Charles Benedict, an eyewitness: "What happened to Colin was cold-blooded murder...
...Fall or William Boot in Scoop. A dark half-century later, Boyd's Henderson Dores would not be believable as a pure man; he must be inept and pusillanimous. When last seen, he has lost his job and his women, and his life hangs on his ability to outrun a real attacker. So much, says Boyd, for the insufficiently corrupt...
Just a few years ago, the nation's long-haul truck drivers were celebrated as the last cowboys. Sitting high and lonesome in 18-wheelers, they put the pedal to the metal, trying to outrun "Smokey" and middle-of-the-road conformity. The flip side of the image: stressful schedules and strained marriages. But now split-level suburbia is the new deal on wheels. An up-and-coming crowd of diesel outriders are bringing their homes and their wives along in fully outfitted, self-contained living quarters set behind the driver's cab. If they need a handle, call this...