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...could switch-hit with phenomenal power, round the bases in less than 13 seconds and outrun fly balls to deepest Yankee Stadium. He could also injure himself in battles with water coolers and golf clubs, and / get so hung over that his eyes "were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel...
Indeed, Moon is in some ways quintessentially American. He was tortured in several communist prison camps and was once left for dead on a bloody snowbank in Dac Dong, but he survived to become an immigrant millionaire. A devout anti-communist, Moon's speeches frequently echo not only of one of his heroes, Douglas MacArthur, but also of earlier American patriots. One of his recent statements: "I am even willing to give my life, if that will ensure that the nation and world survive and do God's will" echoes of Nathan Hale...
...they own the place," said Beardsley. "They do." Employees still park in the lot, but cautiously wait in the lobby if there are moose around. Ray Kramer, a biologist for the state game service, has advised fellow Alaskans who encounter a hungry, charging moose to head for the nearest snowbank, cover up and pray...
...Robinson, 12, was discovered Dec. 16 beside a freeway, four days after she was reported missing from her home in Royal Oak. Kristine Mihelich, a brown-haired, blue-eyed ten-year-old from nearby Berkley, vanished on Jan. 2. Her body turned up 18 days later in a roadside snowbank. These victims may all have been sexually molested-the Stebbins boy was. Each body was found fully clothed; two were dead from having been smothered. The exception was Jill Robinson, killed by a shotgun blast that the police think accidentally occurred when the killer panicked. All the children, including Timothy...
Sobil and his roommate were tyring to reach the next room through the fire escape when Sobil stepped through a two foot gap in the gridding, bounced off the other two fire escapes and landed in a snowbank, eyewitnesses said...