Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a 24-4 record--including a 3-0mark against the Angels--came out throwing hardwith fastballs exceeding 95 m.p.h. He escaped atwo-on, two-out jam in the first inning byretiring Doug DeCinces on a drive to thecenter-field wall, and opened the second by easilystriking out Rob Wilfong and Dick Schofield...
Last year, Harvard defeated Cornell, 20-17, at Ithaca, N.Y., on Rob Steinberg's 27-yd. field goal with nine seconds left in the final quarter. Crimson quarterback Brian White had one his finest days of the year, completing 15 of 23 passes...
With 18 minutes remaining in the first half, Rob Leavitt outran everyone after crisp passing by Gibbs and LaRaja faked out the Babson defense...
...Richie said in his best Baron Butthole Voice. 'I am in diah need of three tickey-tickies to youah deah old American flicktoons.' " The Fancy Juxtaposition: epigraphs from Virgil and Mean Streets. The Self-Deflating Jape: "I am . . . the only survivor of a dying planet. I have come to rob all the women . . . rape all the men . . . and learn to do the Peppermint Twist!" And, most discouraging of all, the Unconscionable Length: 1,138 pages...
...interviewer commiserated with the author of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice because Hollywood had ruined all his books. "Cain looked over at his shelf and said, 'No, they are all still right there.' " Besides, King's work has inspired a bona fide hit in 1986: Rob Reiner's Stand by Me, an adaptation of The Body, a 1982 novella that focuses on a group of twelve-year-olds searching for the body of a boy who was struck by a train...