Word: shots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jack Clark of the Cardinals walked a ridiculous 136 times to lead the National League last season, even though he missed the final month of the season because of an injury. Had Clark remained healthy, the new Yankee would have had a shot at the major league record of 170 walks, which Babe Ruth set in 1923. Clark definitely would have broken the National League mark of 148, which is shared by a former Houston Astro and a former Brooklyn Dodger. Take three points for each sharp-eyed hitter you can name. Six points...
...Typhoid Mary of square grooves is a round Nebraskan named Mark Calcavecchia, 27, whose improvement over the past couple of summers suggests sorcery. Calcavecchia caddied at the Honda Classic one year (1986) and won the tournament the next. On the crucial shot, he used a grooved 8-iron instead of a machete to gouge his way out of a particularly savage patch of vegetation. By reaching the green and, what's more, checking up to within ten feet of the hole, that simple golf ball became something of a superbullet. It nicked everybody else in the business...
...trigger an angry black response. Texas Congressman Mickey Leland, a leading black supporter of Jackson, called a press conference last week to denounce an unnamed cabal of party leaders who were plotting against Jackson. There were no specifics to back up the vague allegations, but Leland fired a warning shot through his none-too-subtle use of the word racist...
...worst violence since the troubles began in December. Though additional security forces were poured in, thousands of West Bank Palestinians commemorated Land Day by burning tires and attacking soldiers. By week's end, as Christians and Jews began their Easter and Passover observances, 18 more Palestinians had been shot dead by Israeli troops, which raised the toll to 139 in the four-month uprising...
Pretoria did claim responsibility last week for a cross-border attack on what it said was an A.N.C. guerrilla transit facility, situated twelve miles inside Botswana. South African forces staged a postmidnight raid on the house, shot to death four people asleep inside, including at least two Botswanan women, and escaped by helicopter after fire bombing the target. Said Defense Minister General Magnus Malan: "It is the policy of the South African government to combat terror wherever it may occur...