Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League. Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr. is on a pace to hit 65-plus homers. So is Frank Thomas, the Chicago White Sox's baby-faced behemoth. Thomas scored 59 runs by June 1, a record, and Toronto's Joe Carter set an April standard for rbi's. Even pencil-necked pipsqueaks are crushing the ball...
...whether tennis fan or not, pay homage to the gods of Harvard's past this weekend, pencil in some sun time and stroll across the river to the tennis center...
...cinder-block entrance, the punishment is real. Delinquent students must remain in the room -- absolutely quiet -- all day, even eating at their desks. "It's so hot and so boring," moans a seventh grader named Lance, 12, serving day two of a three-day sentence for tardiness. His pencil is worn to the nub from writing "I will follow school rules" 200 times. (The record is 500.) "This place is just terrible...
...despite the great basketball that such teams can undoubtedly play, that can't be why March Madness inspires the brackets phenomenon. You know, sports sections everywhere being ravaged with predictions in ink and pencil above the thin lines which connect...
...half-finished novel called Accordion Crimes, she has already scouted Texas, Chicago and most of New England, with Minnesota and Wisconsin still ahead. This rumbling about the continent might simply be pencil sharpening, the kind of elaborate preparation that writers allow themselves while waiting for mental mists to clear. But for Proulx it works...