Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third, Hurley went to first on a fielder's choice and tried to steal second. Springfield catcher Kurt Ascherman threw the ball into center field to advance Hurley to third. Pete Varney grounded to Steitz, whose slow pick-up and bad throw to the plate allowed Hurley to slide home safely...
Singles by Bernhard, Hurley, and DeMichele loaded the bases for the Crimson in the tenth with only one out. Varney went to a 3-2 count before lofting a high fly ball that the wind carried into deep center. Bernhard's slide beat the throw to the plate...
...Curve. In the last nine years, Dr. Lucius D. Hill of Seattle's Mason Clinic has succeeded in correcting reflux in all but three of a total of 254 patients, and in only one case was there a recurrence of the hernia sufficient to allow the stomach to slide up. Hill's technique, which is now being adopted by many other surgeons, involves a more elaborate procedure: stitching part of the stomach to form an internal flap that prevents reflux. Ligaments and other tissues are attached where the gullet joins the stomach, so that this junction is anchored...
...such test, the young subject is held in his mother's lap within reach of a puzzle box. Behind a sliding transparent panel, a toy is placed to snare the subject's attention. To collect this fascinating prize, the baby must hold the panel open while plundering the box of its contents. Bruner's youngest subjects -under one year-typically reach for the toy with one hand, encounter the transparent obstacle and bang on it or give up, either in slumber, indifference or tears. Older babies may manage to slide the panel up with one hand, then...
...close friends from the Pudding have now proven, is publishing a book. Call it the "definitive insiders' guide" to the Ivy League, chock it full of nifty alumni picnic stories, throw in artsy unfocused pictures of preppies drinking beer in Harvard stadium and hippies standing around looking high, slide it into a glossy cover with Ivy school emblems that look like ski patches, and wait for the money to roll...