Word: southpaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...String Southpaw. In public or private, Rockefeller has an exuberant lifestyle, as if great wealth has stimulated hyperbole of word and deed. He constantly says "terrific" and "great" when he really means "O.K." Everybody he greets becomes, momentarily at least, his friend. "Hiya fella!" he shouts, often because he does not remember the fella's name. He buys art the way he shakes hands: ebulliently, rather indiscriminately. Then he continually rearranges his paintings, shuffling them from home to home to suit his mood, sometimes putting up a new display just before the dinner guests arrive...
...ranked Miami saddled sophomore southpaw Milt Holt with a 4-1 defeat Saturday; and Northern Colorado administered the coup-de-grace 4-2 the next afternoon...
...said the Crimson's seventh inning was the key offensively. With one out, Dan Williams singled and Ed Durso fanned. LaCivita then hit a hard shot down and left-field line which was caught by the left-handed outfielder who had come in as a defensive substitute. Playing a southpaw in left field is highly unorthodox because of difficulties a lefty can have in throwing...
Standout Crimson southpaw Milt Holt had his seven-game winning streak snapped against Miami. Holt, who was in sub-par form, ran into trouble in the middle innings, giving up single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth...
...words of Wildcat coach Ted Conner, a team "about average in every respect, with no great strengths or real weaknesses." However, UNH can boast three outstanding hitters in Darryl Conte, Dave Bettencourt and Walter Benny, and Conner can call on a couple of solid pitchers in southpaw Bill Tufts and right-hander Buff Young...