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...hard Cooney really did hit. But by the eleventh, Cooney's fists were drooping steadily, and Holmes danced to the attack again with swift and steady combinations. Then, in the 13th, Cooney was badly stunned, and Holmes began to measure him with the left glove on the shoulder or face (thumb out) and fetch him clouts with the right. Cooney sagged, and by the time Valle made it through the ropes, the challenger had caught a barrage of fierce shots. "I was going to give him a count," said Mills Lane. "His eyes were still clear." Valle said...
...bulky youngster rounded second the outfielder straightened up and heaved the ball into the jungle gym beyond third base. There would clearly be no play but Thompson interpreted his coach's agitation to mean that drastic action was necessary. He lowered his shoulder and headed directly for Silverstein, who was jumping up and down, his back to the action screaming for the throw from a non-existent back...
...also one of the most dedicated athletes in the school. Last summer she injured her back when she dove and landed on some concrete--the resulting shoulder injury plagued her throughout the season. Despite this mishap. Stone managed to dive in almost every meet, never once complaining...
...stories we tell ourselves before we wake. Who then could feign indifference to the dreams of artists? Virginia Woolf recalled a nightmare in A Sketch of the Past: "I dreamt I was looking in a glass when a horrible face-the face of an animal-suddenly showed over my shoulder." The visitation was, she said, her persistent "looking glass shame," and in a fantasy of a haunted house she later wrote, "Death was the glass! Death was between...
...sport, vision, long arms, unselfish attitude"-up to this point, Cousy could be describing himself-"and everything else you might want to order. He's the most innovative player." His specialty: one-time-only passes for one-time-only plays. "Did you see that off-the-shoulder job? What's the cliche-necessity is the mother of invention?" Cousy is often called the best passer ever, and he thinks Bird is better...