Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groups that follow the two dreams are as different as the dreams themselves. Paunchy suburban couples from Hartford and Los Angeles come to see Southern Hospitality. They are displeased with the increasing velocity of their modern life; and the sight of calm acres make them smile. They gladly plunk down their admission fees to see the remnants of the old days in Natchez and Richmond. They stay at hotels with names like The Plantation House, and go home convinced that heaven must be a little like the South...
...BOSTON COLLEGE ab r h rbi O'N'll 5 1 0 0 Rob'n 5 0 1 1 Amick 4 1 1 0 Fin'll 3 0 1 1 S'mon 4 0 1 0 Kitley 2 1 0 0 Plunk't 4 0 0 0 Maher 4 0 0 0 O'Br'n 3 0 2 0 Graham 0 0 0 0 Totals...
...better if, like many a son of a Stoughton by that juncture, you were nine beers gone) --stirred the minds and hearts of all the participants. Caught up as they were in the adolescent joy of it all, they nevertheless recognized in the incident a glimmer of the intellectual plunk Harvard was said to cherish...
...approaches teaching with the conviction that the worst enemy of art is boredom. "The child starts out with a dull teacher. Plunk, plunk. What should be a beautiful experience becomes drudgery. Terrible. We must keep them in flames." Piatigorsky keeps the fire aglow. Every week or so, about a dozen talented students in his master's class come to his big house in West Los Angeles and form a semicircle in his living room. Piatigorsky slumps his big frame (6 ft. 3½ in.) into an easy chair, and one by one the students play a solo...
...string of 47, and Balsis shot 78. Then, after Wimpy had pocketed 17 more, Joe ran 52 balls. Finally, he lined up the last ball-a shot into the corner pocket. "The kisses and caroms look tough," he said later, "but straight-on shots are the hardest." Click. Plunk. The ball dropped neatly into the pocket, and by a score of 150-70, Joe Balsis was the world champion of billiards, richer...