Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pitchers in those days fired the ball underhand, standing only 45 feet from the plate. A "cross-fire" was created by the pitcher moving along a six-foot painted strip from which he made his delivery. In short, before Thayer's brainstorm the lot of the backstop was "nasty, brutish, and short...
...Best American Short Stories 1978, edited by Ted Solotaroff
...second time in the last week, the injury-riddled Harvard men's track team came up with an outstanding effort, only to fall just short of victory...
...Radcliffe J.V. eight lost to a very strong Dartmouth squad. Dartmouth's J.V. boat jumped out in front with a fast start; and the Radcliffe team, suffering from a short stroke, never got the power it needed to challenge...
...oddball for, among other things, having a tremendous field contingent but no strength in the running events. An enormous Green woman ran away with the shot put, heaving the heavy metal 45 feet, 2 inches. Harvard's Kim Johnson finished a strong second with a toss just four inches short of the winning mark, but good enough for eight Crimson points. Johnson also hurled the discus 109 feet, good for fourth place in that event...