Word: skimmer
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...first game in a tiebreaker, and took a close second game as well, Harvard was one stanza from victory. Just less than a full game later, they were one shot away, the score in game three tied at 17. Zabel was the one to execute it, however, a skimmer off the front wall, just out of reach of Brog's straining racket in the front left corner...
...predecessors belonged to a fiercer school of Gospel-booming sockdolagy: back-country camp-meeting divines, like Charles Finney, exhaling vivid damnations and, later, out of the '20s, Billy Sunday, in white spats and straw skimmer, ranting indictments of "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge-columned, mush-fisted, jelly-spined, four-flushing Christians...
Thirty seconds later Lewis flew past Carr and Mueller and completed his hat trick with a bull skimmer into the lower right corner...
...pointed to three hulking boys, one with a skimmer on and an other with a shriner's hat. One of them, Al Sheinbaum, planned all the fun. "This is the pit," he said, gesturing in back of him. There were loads of girls. Someone was beating a big drum in time to an Indian war dance and everyone had some sort of crazy hat on. "We're going to bring the pit to cheer at tiddly-winks matches," he said...
Maga's Daughter (1966) shows his wife, who is fond of crazy hats, wearing an 18th century Quaker skimmer. Says Andy: "It reminded me of those Early-American flatiron weather vanes." This work, unlike most, belongs to the artist's own collection-permanently. Since Betsy, an ebullient woman of 45, reminds the artist of her mother, he named the painting, which has the quality of universal womanhood, to encompass two generations...