Word: seavers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grapette," a melancholy narrator in his late thirties is unwillingly reunited with Carmel Seaver, an ultra-precocious 17-year-old who slept with him when she was thirteen and he was thirty-three, and who drives him all over town in daddy's birthday present to her, a telephone equipped Peugeot...
...divorced wife throws herself into a swimming pool, fully clothed, when he arrives at a party. And the ways in which his women demonstrate their sureness, so different from the men's limpness, are as varied as they are inescapable. Perhaps the most startling is the moment when Carmel Seaver, the 17-year-old in "Grapette," absent-mindedly begins to rinse a dish in the narrator's sink and is brought up short by his polite protest...
...very reason that most scholars favor it: the ease of converting one unit to another-say, kilometers to meters-by simply multiplying or dividing by tens. Says Brand: "You can't visualize a tenth very well, but you can imagine a quarter or a half of something." Adds Seaver Leslie, founder of Americans for Customary Weight and Measure: "The metric system is imposed rationality...
...Nolan Ryan is just ten strikeouts shy of Johnson's record. The four pitchers closest to him are Gaylord Perry (3452). Steve Carlton (3434). Tom Seaver (3137). and Ferguson Jenkins...
...Seaver will overtake Johnson in another way with one pitch if Tom opens for the Mets against the Phillies next week. It would be his 14th opening day and tie the record. Seaver never won one for the Reds, never lost one for the Mets. The first pitch on opening day is like the first horn on New Year's Eve. And it does not have to be a fastball. -By Tom Callahan