Word: stomached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Falling on the ball is one of the most important features of a player's skill. He must be able to dive at a loose ball from any posture and land with the obloid caged by arms, stomach, legs. Thus are fumbles retrieved in football games; thus are fumbles, unexpected flukes of fortune, re covered. Many football games have been won by fumbles promptly pounced upon. Since a football is not round, but bounces drunkenly, the proper pounce requires flashing speed, intuitive judgment, and tire less practice...
...night, but through the gloom Communist Missiroli descried the forms of Ettore Mury, Commander of the 81st Legion of the Fascist Militia, and Renzo Morigi, Secretary of the local Fascisti. As they strolled by, conversing earnestly, Communist Missiroli drew a gun, fired, wound- ing Signer Mury in the stomach, Signer Morigi...
...steep sides of the bunkers on his father's golf course. He tore down his first Ford and put it together so that it was a racing car with an underslung chassis. Never did a jerky airplane bumping through a series of air pockets make him sick at his stomach...
Five sets of championship ten-nis can make strong men sob., To play those five sets a man must have a sturdy heart; a stomach un-corroded with strong drink, a breath uncontaminated by cafe smoke...
...chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water as the kneaded dough in his little bake shop in his native Germany, sprinted doggedly, passed George Young. A little further and cramps twisted Young's stomach muscles, and the first favorite was hauled from the swim...