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When the stickwomen did penetrate Dartmouth's defense, goalie Tori Parrott was there to turn them away...
...step through most of the first half. Harvard got the first shot of the game when Tania Huber brought the ball up the right sideline and forced a penalty corner. Beth Mullen took the pass from the corner and sent the ball flying towards the Dartmouth net but Parrott made a diving save to keep the game scoreless...
...four games in a row, and Chet Lemon of the White Sox managed to get hit by pitches three times in his first three games. The Orioles beat the Blue Jays for the 17th time in a row at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Seattle's Mike Parrott pitched his 18th straight loss-over two seasons, which puts him one game away from the American League record. Toronto won its fifth straight home opener, and the Texas Rangers staff threw four shutouts in a row-one shy of the A.L. mark...
...Published in the U.S. in 1930-with Švejk spelled Schweik-the book, illustrated by Josef Lada, became a bestseller. The editors of that day discreetly excised more than one-third of the text, because of Švejk-Schweik's scatological expressions. This new version by Sir Cecil Parrott of the University of Lancaster translates every excremention that Švejk is prone...
...HASEK's life, no less than his book, suggests that under the right circumstances there are other options open to people besides self-protective passivity in the face of martyrdom. As a young man--Parrott tells the story in an illuminating introduction--Hasek behaved in many ways like the people in The Good Soldier Svejk. Dissatisfied with the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Austria-Hungary, with the parliamentary politicking the monarchy permitted, and with the middle-class respectability his family pursued, Hasek set about making himself objectionable to them. He was editor of Animal World magazine, and he made up imaginary...