Word: scorcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottom of the third is a perfect example. After Prior nearly killed the pitcher with a rocket right into her glove, Reilly and Wambach both singled. Next, Crowley delivered a scorcher to left which had extra-bases and two RBI's written all over it. Somehow Matylewski managed not only to catch the smash but also to double off Reilly at second...
...Lundholm Gymnasium got very hot by game's end, as the Crimson held on to defeat the Wildcats in a 74-71 scorcher in front of 366 fans...
...coalition members must find a new hero, and Kemp auditioned for the role by delivering an anti-Communist scorcher instead of his usual abstruse speech about free-market economics. At a time when some Republicans are distancing themselves from Reagan's foreign policy, Kemp embraced it with renewed fervor and blamed any mistakes on Shultz. He accused the Secretary of State of neglecting "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan and Nicaragua and of waffling on the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...town, once again in Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. Her name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable, and she has a past that she confides to her barfly acquaintance one snowy Friday night. The teller of this tale takes his time getting around to it, but it is a scorcher when it arrives: how Rose and a construction worker fell in love long ago, married and, being devout Roman Catholics, had three children in as many years. How, further, romance soured into a nightmarish descent into impoverishment and brutality. After years of dulled acquiescence to the growing horror around...
...Communicating with a pitcher is a language all itself, one without words," the manager says he learned as a second baseman in Baltimore. Middle infielders, the brightest ones, observe the signs and study the patterns. With the same pitch, a scorcher, Gooden comes again at Brock, who tips the ball foul for strike two. A computer type, Johnson tries not to neglect human software either. He knows how to make pulling a pitcher seem a compliment on a par with leaving him in the game. "I see a lot of early Earl Weaver in him," says Frank Cashen, Weaver...