Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Seaver was sold. Giamatti in fact proclaims that baseball is "a sport that touches on what is most important in American life"--a belief enhanced by a whole theory he says is epitomized by Seaver. "The sadness of Seaver was that he came East with a dream and somehow it didn't work...
...Somehow the rules were changed, the game was changed, and he got sold," Giamatti says leaning back and gesticulating as though he were teaching a class. He goes on. "You know, the interesting thing about baseball is that it engages the individual in a team sport which is profoundly reliant on the individual. Not like football where you can't tell where the ball is. It's clear where everything is in a baseball field, you can see it. And you're there alone, but you're part of the group. When you're the offense, as it were...
...former Yankee, while making millions and winning but 16 in his first season with Boston, was out there attempting to justify his place in the free agent system, attempting to justify his ability to pitch well in the clutch, attempting to beat the best pitcher in baseball. Somehow, all that pressure seemed right...
...insisted that the information would not have changed the commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone, because the members had thoroughly studied the possibility of Cuban involvement anyway. Ford said the idea was presented in strong arguments by the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, who felt that Castro was somehow involved...
First novels are customarily praised for showing promise. Green's fulfilled it. Blindness opens with the diary of John Haye, 16, a student at a typically repressive English public school. The lad shows himself to be a callow but somehow endearing little twit, alternately gushing over books he likes and playing the world-weary aesthete. Asked to submit a story to a school magazine, Haye notes archly that "there is a sense of degradation attached to appearing in print." The young dandy likes to appear cold and aloof: "It sounds an awful thing to write, but I seldom meet...