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...also had them drawing pictures of figures of speech, like 'you drive me up the wall.' They loved it. After that they seemed ready for similes and metaphors." Becker grades themes and tests at home at least three days each week, two to five hours at a stint...
...good. Established authors, editors, critics and agents read them glumly, but with a touch of the spirit that moves others to buy lottery tickets. The big payoff may be ridiculously unlikely, but the lure is irresistible. Novelist Walker Percy was handed an improbable winning number in 1976. A teaching stint in New Orleans left him vulnerable to would-be writers. One day a bulky manuscript was thrust upon him by a middle-aged woman wearing white gloves and accompanied by a chauffeur. She firmly advised Percy to read the "great book" her son had written. Seeing no gentlemanly...
...delicious hanging curve ("I was smiling when I saw that pitch," Santos-Buch said) tossed by the supposed ace of the UMass staff, Chuck Thompson. Thompson, now 5-2, sported a fancy 1.79 ERA coming into the contest, but the lanky junior looked unimpressive in his seven-inning stint...
Coach Alex Nahigian used the laughter as an opportunity to get some new faces in the lineup. Danny Skaff saw his first action of the campaign when he joined Danny Bowles, Paul Scheper and Billy Blood as defensive replacements in the seventh, and Brown's ninth-inning stint on the mound also served as his introduction to intercollegiate play...
Alevizos, who came on with one on and two out in the ninth to preserve the victory, became the first Crimson reliever to see action since the team came north. The righthander appears to have conquered his arm trouble, although a one-out stint may not be indicative...