Word: swingingly
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...weekend in which the Harvard baseball team split four games on a swing through the Louisiana Bayou,the sophomore outfielder from Davison, Mich. took a little extra joy in sweeping a pair from his home state Wolverines...
...seven full innings, junior Rob Wheeler sat in the dugout and watched his Harvard teammates swing and miss. But in the eighth—after a single by Salsgiver, a double by Hendricks and a Mann walk loaded the bases—Wheeler had to watch no more...
...same plan that I have every time I go up to pinch hit,” Wheeler said, “and that’s to swing at anything in the strike zone. And it worked out. I got a pitch low in the zone, which is what I like, and I took it to right field...
Despite these liabilities, though, walking yields real pleasure. There’s something primal about it: the extension of the long muscles of your thighs, the swing of your knee’s hinge, the kick at the apex of your stride, the roll of your foot’s fine, differentiated bones against the pavement. Walking allows you to think: Charles Dickens, I read once, often walked 20 miles a day and would come back brimming with new characters, dialogue and melodrama. And Dickens did it in the days before really comfortable footwear. Too, walking provides a friendly view...
...Missouri Congressman has mastered the attack-dog role, having spent the past year calling Bush a "miserable failure." He could swing his home state into Kerry's column and fire up union supporters. But he's the epitome of an Old Democrat, and if Bush is attacking Kerry's 19 years in Washington, what would he do with Gephardt's 28? Also, what happened to that union support in Iowa...