Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck out 496 bat ters in 467 innings, Koosman won a spot in the Mets' rotation this spring. In his first game, he shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-0; in his second, he whiffed Willie Mays with the bases loaded ("It was no great thrill") and blanked the San Francisco Giants, 3-0. "I'll challenge any hitter around," says Jerry, "as long as my fastball holds up and I have a curve that can keep them off stride. That's all you need in this league." As a matter of fact, that...
When the Women's Ivy League Swimming and Basketball Championships were contested this winter at Harvard, the athletic competition featured more than just the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Whoever scheduled the tournaments for the second weekend of February, you see, apparently didn't check in with the weatherman beforehand. As a result, coming as they did the weekend after The Storm, the championships also introduced a new element to sporting competition, the torture of traveling...
...weekend the annual Winter Carnival was being staged in Hanover, an event made even more depressing when, in the words of coach Susan Lutkus, "It took us as long to get from the bus station to the pool as it had from Hanover to Boston." Make that the thrill victory, the agony of defeat and the torture of traveling...
...only freshman on the 1960 combined Harvard-Yale track team against Oxford and Cambridge, he out-jumped the former Harvard track captain who was leading the British, in what he later described as the greatest thrill of his Harvard career. After his first two games Ohiri was never in full form again. Munro says in retrospect, "The thing that I always think about is that after those initial two games, I never saw him healthy...
Clearly, what brought audiences back to the Bijou time and again was not the thrill of solving the mystery before Chan did but the homely wisdom of the sub-gumshoe, a man who always had an axiom to grind. With articles and conjunctions thrown to the wind, Charlie's observations usually made up in specific gravity what they lacked in grammar...