Word: spinner
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...abstracted mode that I trailed a Tony Rizzo "Trophy Tail" - consisting of "pulsating spinner, breathing marabou, and life-like squid tail," altogether a hideously succulent mouthful of black rubber glinting here and there with sequins and harboring a cluster of deadly and barely noticeable hooks - across central Ontario's Elephant Lake yesterday, running the boat at that rapid trolling speed that gives muskies an appetite and the impulse to lunge...
...Lowell Spinners are the Red Sox Single A short-season affiliate a mere 30 miles from the mother park. They're a team of college grads and muscled-up American Legion heroes in possession of enthusiasm, dreams and not much chance. Shea Hillenbrand was a Spinner, a fact oft-noted in Lowell these days. But you look at what's happened to Hillenbrand during his second tour of big league pitching and you realize: maybe Lowell to Boston's not that short a drive...
...batter or two or six later, there is another foul. A Spinner or a Yankee-I will never remember which, nor be inclined to research it-hits a long drive toward the left-field pole that fades over the short fence. I notice that this is where the children's play area is, and I say to Kevin, "They're taking shots at Caroline!" He laughs, as do I. I either say to him as a postscript thought, or think silently to myself, "They should have a net out there...
...target of 373 on the final day, India bowled out Australia for 212, becoming only the third test team in history to win a match after having been forced to follow on. Where Laxman had put steel into the spine of the Indian batting, a lanky young Sikh off-spinner, Harbajan Singh, claimed the honors with the ball - having dispatched seven Australians in the first innings, he added another six scalps in the second...
...words of a desperate candidate - and the image of a stack of 10,000 ballots untouched by human hands - tend to overshadow the words of a lawyer and an angry spinner, and suddenly Gore has another deal in the air that Americans may understandably find attractive. Another deal that Bush will turn down. But not in person...